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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
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- Subject: Re: Am I the only one?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:06:34 GMT
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- louislam@iastate.edu (Louis C Lam) writes:
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- >In <1993Jan23.045426.12226@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
-
- >>>THEN-- I read the article in the latest MacUser about Powerbooks and
- >>>what to bring along when on the road. And they talk about how easy it
- >>>is to make your own networking cable. ("For about $75, you can make
- >>>your VERY OWN NETWORKING CABLE! Just buy two PhoneNet adaptors,
- >>>
- >>>Am I missing something? Am I the only one who knows this wonderful
- >>>cheap method for hooking up two Macs with just a $10 serial cable?!?
-
- Actually, I usually use a 15' Imagewrite II cable. It cost $15, but
- as is mentioned below, is only good for 2 Macs.
-
- >>True, you can run an AppleTalk connection with a printer cable between
- >>TWO macs. However, if the desktop mac is part of a larger network,
- >>there could be some reason it's owner/administrator may not want you to
- >>pull it off the net to hook up your Duo (what if it's an active
- >>fileserver, for example). I suspect that's what they had in mind
- >>recommending the phone-net hardware.....
-
- >Someone told me that it will work with a printer cable, but doing so
- >could increase the chance of data transmittion errors. However, I'm
- >using a printer cable to connect my PB100 and IIci and I've found
- >no problems at all.
-
- I have never had any problems with the IW II cable that I have use
- with various Powerbooks for the last year or so. But I have to ask: why
- are you not connecting your 100 with a SCSI cable to your IIci? The
- bandwidth of SCSI puts LocalTalk to shame.
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