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- From: cgarnett@unix.amherst.edu (Craig Garnett)
- Subject: Re: ImageWriter II and AppleTalk?
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:27:42 GMT
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- cgallagher@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu wrote:
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- : Ok people, this is an "is it worth the trouble?" question. We
- : have 3 macs running Sys 7 on an Appletalk net. They all can share
- : files w/ eachother, etc. My question is, is their and easy way to
- : hook up the ImageWriter II that we just "inherited" to AppleTalk? We
- : have the AppleTalk ImageWriter chooser doc. Is it worth the troubl and
- : money to get the hardware needed to hook it up?
- :
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- Well, depends on what you call "easy". You'd need to get the AppleTalk
- card for the ImageWriter that Apple sells, open the IW II, toss it in,
- set a DIP switch, and then plug it into the network. Really not tough at
- all, as far as doing it goes. For $100 and a half hour's work, all three
- Macs can share the IW. You'll have to decide if it's worth it.
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- IW's don't do background printing under Sys 7, by the way.
- -C
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