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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Sharing Disks/Printers
Message-ID: <35652@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 89 21:31:26 GMT
References: <8910121657.AA17135@obsolete.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8910121657.AA17135@obsolete.UUCP> nazgul@alphalpha.UUCP (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>Does anyone know what the Apple Talk networking card
>for the IIe does for you?  Presumably with the right software
>you can access remote disks/printers/anything.

The card comes with software to let you log onto AppleShare file servers and
choose network ImageWriter and LaserWriter printers.  The card pretty much
emulates a SuperSerial card (at the firmware level, not the hardware), so
you can print to it from many (not all) existing programs.

>[...]  What is the thing for and how
>do you use it (other than with System 5 on a GS)?

Apple doesn't support using the Workstation card on an Apple IIgs. (The
GS has AppleTalk capability built in.)

Using the workstation card on an Apple IIe, you can boot ProDOS 8 from a
server if you want.  If you boot locally, you can still log onto and off
of server volumes, and they look to your ProDOS 8 software pretty much
like ProDOS volumes (except that READ_BLOCK and WRITE_BLOCK return an
error).

>[...]
>BTW.  Where does one get the ImageWriter I emulator for the
>laser printer?

It comes with GS System Software 5.0 and with the Apple IIe workstation
software.  The GS Control Panel NDA's LaserWriter CDev has a button for
downloading the emulator into a LaserWriter, and the Chooser.II program
has the same capability under ProDOS 8 (on either machine).
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