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- From: NETMGR02@CBE.AB.CA (Glen Larwill, Computing Services, (403)294-8380)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
- Subject: RE: LAT Parallel Print Servers
- Message-ID: <01GSL0E92C0W8ZEEL4@CBE.AB.CA>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:01:00 GMT
- Sender: A discussion of Digital's PCSA product <LANWORKS@MIAMIU.BITNET>
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- >>I'm looking for a 2 port inexpensive parallel print server.
- >>
- >>I see the DECserver 250 in DECdirect... but this is a little two expensive for
- >>our tastes.... and over kill for our application.....
- >>
- >>Thanks in advance.... any and all will be appreciated....
- >>
- >>Mark Montanez
- >>
- >It seems so obvious, doesn't it? All these ethernet ports for printers that
- >have to support various versions of IPX, and remote printer stuff, and queue
- >management, yet nobody seems to sell a simple LAT terminal server with a
- >single parallel port for output. They've been making big one with lots of
- >serial ports for years, so a little one with one or two parallel ports doesn't
- >sound like too much to ask for, does it.......
-
- Terminal servers that contain parallel ports DO exist. The DECServer 250
- has 2 parallel ports and 4 asynch ports. I have never used one, but I
- don't imagine that they work much differently from the simple asynch
- terminal servers.
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-
- Glen Larwill, Network Technician,
- Calgary Board of Education
- Internet: netmgr02@cbe.ab.ca
-