Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Serial Drivers Message-ID: <8087@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 5 Jul 89 21:32:51 GMT References: <1138@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA Lines: 45 In article <1138@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>, jness@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Joel Ness) writes: > A few faculty members now have Macs and want to also use the LaserWriter. [...] > Of course the obvious solution which we are still pushing is to buy PC > AppleTalk cards and network the department. We still may succeed at > convincing them to do this but in the mean time they are trying to find > a "minimal-funding" solution. The LocalTalk PC cards would be ideal... > I'd appreciate any experiences/suggestions/ideas as to: > > 1. Serial drivers. I'm assuming we'd need a way of sending > Postscript out a serial port without having to encode it in AppleTalk > packets. Is that correct? What sort of software might do this? You can get an Asyncronous (Serial) LaserWriter Driver from the Apple Programmer's and Developer's Association, and some dealers may also have it. It is cheap (cost of duplication and shipping if you get it from APDA). > 2. Hardware connections. Would some sort of Mac serial to 25-pin > cable work here - assuming that the proper sort of information was > coming out of the serial port? What would the wiring diagram be for > this? I believe that this would just be you typical DIN-8 to DB-25 cable (like a Mac to Hayes modem cable). I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. > 3. Anything else that would make the operation more difficult or > impossible. Your switch box can only get so big :-) But for now, you should be set. > Joel Ness INTERNET: jness@ub.d.umn.edu > Information Services BITNET: JNESS@UMNDUL > University of Minnesota, Duluth -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)