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Apple Talk

A network communication protocol originally developed by Apple for the Macintosh computer and related peripherals. Apple Talk has been built in to most Macs sold since the late 1980's, though the hardware connections have changed a few times along the way. While Apple Talk is extremely easy to set up and use, it has been known to occasionally interfere with serial communication or timing with things like MIDI interfaces and synchronizers. On modern Macs (which don't even have serial ports anymore) this is almost never an issue, but a few veteran Mac users still like to turn Apple Talk off when doing critical work.