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From: userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How can I network our Imagewriter 2?
Message-ID: <299@ualtamts.BITNET>
Date: 4 Sep 89 17:58:42 GMT
References: <7049@rpi.edu>
Organization: University of Alberta (MTS)
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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.
 
What the IW2 will need will be a LocalTalk board installed into
itself.  It's not a simple matter of changing a few switches.  The
boards run something along the lines of $100 US (I'm likely a long
way off on that one - check with an Apple dealer).  As for any of
the questions you have regarding PhoneNet, Faralon includes a very
comprehensive manual when you get your boxes; it answers all your
other questions.
 
I, on the otherhand, am trying a different approach to using the
IW2 I have upstairs.  I'm trying to write/get-ahold-of a utility
that works as a spooler.  I can't afford the LocalTalk board and
another PhoneNet box for the printer, so I was trying to cheat a
bit and just route things through the upstairs SE's modem port...
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