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- From: covert@cactus.org (Richard Covert)
- Subject: LocalTalk help needed
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.032006.275@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:20:06 GMT
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- OK folks, I just bought a Mac SE. it has 4 megs RAM, 20 meg
- hard drive and the SuperDrive. I want to use it as a small
- Mac BBS. I also have a Quadra 700 20/160 with the following:
-
- 1) Sony SMO (300 megs r/w per side) [SCSI interface]
-
- 2) NEC CDAR36 cd rom drive [SCSI interface]
-
- 3) WangDAT 1300 4mm tape backup [SCSI interface]
-
- 4) TwinComm 14.4 kbps fax/data modem
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- 5) Panasonic KXP4450 Laser Partner (tm) laser printer. SErial/parallel
- printer interfaces only - no Apple Talk interface.
-
-
- Now, I want to place the bbs sw (Hermes 2.0 I believe) on the internal
- hard drive in the SE. I would like to place the fax/data modem on
- the SE also. So, using the Printer port on the SE with the LocalTalk
- connector, leaves the serial port for the modem.
-
- I want to put the Panasonic laser printer on the serial port of the
- Q700. And the LocalTalk connector on the printer port of the Q700.
-
- I want to put the CD rom drive on the SE's scsi so that the BBS can
- access it quickly.
-
- I want to put the Sony SMO and the WangDAT tape drive on the Q700's
- SCSI port.
-
- Now for the Questions:
-
- 1) Since neither printer nor modem have an AppleTalk hw interface,
- how do I access the laserprinter from the SE, or the modem from
- the Q700? I have the two macs working through AppleTalk and can
- access my MicroPhone program on the Q700 from the SE, but it won't
- dial out the serial port on the Q700 when uPhone is run on the SE.
- Something about printing.
-
- 2) Can Hermes access partitions on the Sony SMO on the Q700 thru
- the AppleTalk network? Should be able to .
-
- 3) Can I use the WangDAT on the Q700 to backup files on the SE?
-
- I guess my biggest need to use both the modem and the laser printer
- from either mac, but since neither has an Appletalk interface I am
- lost. I could buy a Shiva NetSErial interface for both but the Shiva
- NetSerial's are $300 apiece!! Kinda expensive. But it seems that since
- I have an unused serial port on the Q700 and the SE, I should be able to
- use them for the modem and the printer.
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- Richard E. Covert covert@cactus.org
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