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- From: schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz)
- Subject: What is SPECIAL on an Sun/Apple laserwriter I printer?
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- Organization: 3M Company, 3M Center, Minnesota, USA
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 03:01:14 GMT
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- I have access (nobody drool now :-) to what looks like an early Apple
- LaserWriter I except that it prints a Sun on the powerup page (along
- with a half-eaten apple :-).
-
- More seriously, I connected the printer to 9600 baud, /dev/ttya and it works
- OK, albeit slowly. The switch on the back of the printer says "1200, 9600,
- special, appletalk". All except the "special" are pretty obvious and hence my
- question. Does anyone know what "special" is and whether I can hook a Sparc
- to "special"? Would it be faster than 9600 baud by any chance?
-
- Thanks.
-
- P.S. Of course the manual is long gone.
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- John C. Schultz +1 (612) 733-4047 schultz@halley.serc.3m.com
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