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From: larry.rosen@canremote.uucp (LARRY ROSEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How can I network our Ima
Message-ID: <89091016325422@masnet.uucp>
Date: 9 Sep 89 03:53:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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eu>I have several questions about how to do this. First, what needs to be
eu>done to tell the Imagewriter 2 to use Appletalk? She no longer has any
eu>documentation that came with the printer. Is there something we have
eu>to do with the DIP switches?

I'm fairly sure that you need a appletalk card that goes into the
printer.....

eu>Secondly, apart from shelling out $100 or so to get PhoneNet cabling
eu>from Farallon (which is certainly a wonderful product, but seems to me
eu>like overkill for our simple needs and small budgets), how can I wire
eu>up the network? Does anyone have documentation on the pinouts and
eu>where I need to put termination resistors, and their values? For the
eu>very short distances involved, twisted pair ought to be fine, if I
eu>just knew what to connect to what!

Never knew anybody who tried it themselves but it should be quite easy.
I look through my spec. books and see what I can come up with. If
can't find anything I guess I can 'reverse engineer' the modunet cabling
we use in my office.

Larry Rosen
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