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From: xdaa374@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How can I network our Imagewriter 2?
Keywords: Localtalk, cabling, DIP switches? no manuals...
Message-ID: <17989@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 12:21:11 GMT
References: <7049@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: xdaa374@emx.UUCP (Bill Douglass)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <7049@rpi.edu> elliott@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Elliott) writes:
>
>I just moved into an apartment with a friend who has an SE and an
>Imagewriter 2 printer. I have an SE myself, and no printer. We'd like
>to share the printer, and for maximum convenience, to do so by making
>a small localtalk network consisting of just our two macs and the
>printer.

Well, to hook up an ImageWriter, you'll need the ImageWriter AppleTalk
card from Apple (don;t know of any 3rd party alternatives.)  That's
about $100 bucks right there.  As for the cabling, just connect the 3
devices with 3 PhoneNet connectors and two phone wires between them.
Put 50ohm terminating resistors in the open RJ11 jacks on the 2 outside
connectors.

We have set up several of these, and they seem to work well.  Do be
aware that vibrations can cause the cards to work loose, so reseating
the circuit board may be necessary.

-- 
Bill Douglass, TCADA

"I dreamed I was to take a test,
 in a Dairy Queen, on another planet."      L. Anderson