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- From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
- Subject: Re: Direct Serial connection to a LW IIf
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:20:54 GMT
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- In <714051694.3797@minster.york.ac.uk> rod@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
-
- >I wonder if anyone can help me out. I'm helping organise a
- >conference soon, and I've been asked to work out how to
- >connect a Powebook 100 or 140 _directly_ to a LW IIf (that's
- >all we'll have with us.)
-
- >Does anyone have any ideas how this can be done? I know I
- >ought to do it "properly" by getting a couple of LocalTalk
- >boxes and setting it up that way, but I don't have any of these
- >available.
-
- Get a Mac to ImageWriter II cable and leave AppleTalk ACTIVE! It will work
- just fine! I have done this many times with several different kinds of
- Macs (but not a PowerBook, yet).
-