ULTRA RARE! - APPLE / WALL SNA•ps V 1.2 5250 Macintosh AS/400 Emulation Server Software - New in Factory Sealed BOX.On 3.5” Floppy DisksUPC: 7-4947901252-6please see all photos. As you can see from the photos, this item is never been opened and it is still factory sealed.ABOUT:

SNA•psis an application software package for Apple Macintosh computers running System 7. Its purpose is to provide Macintosh users access to resources located on IBM Midrange and Mainframe computers. It is the result of a collaboration between Apple and IBM in the early 1990s and has been developed by Orion Software. SNA•ps is short forSystems Networking Architecture protocols and services.

SNA•ps uses IBMs proprietarySystems Network Architecturefamily of network protocols to talk to the IBM side of affairs,[1] and Apple’s proprietary AppleTalk on the Macintosh side.

So far, only two publicly available releases are known: version 1.1 from 1992, and version 2.0.1 from 1994. The beta-level release of SNA•ps 1.1 was available during 1991 and was the primary testing level for theIBM/Apple IBM Enterprise Networking Guide for SNA Productsguide.

The main differences between version 1.0, and version 1.1 are the introduction of 3287 printer emulation, and 16 Mbps Token Ring support.

SNA•ps comprises of a client and server component. Both can run on the same Macintosh computer, though.