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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac 512 with SE's
Message-ID: <11439@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 23:50:02 GMT
References: <7812@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu>
Reply-To: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <7812@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> mikec@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Mike E. Ciholas) writes:
>In my mother's office, they have 3 SE's (20MB disk, 1MB) running system 6 or
>higher.  All three are hooked to a laserwriter II NT.  Next door they have a
>512 (not E) and want to hook it to the laserprinter.  What system level can
>you run on the 512?  Is this compatible with system 6?  Will they get the
>infamous "laserprinter has been initialized with an incompatible version..
>blah...blah" resulting in delays and agravation?

About a year ago, I had the same situation with my school. A couple SE's
and some 512Ks. I was able to put the latest system versions on the SE's,
i think we were using 5.0, although maybe it was 6.0... it escapes me now,
and on the 512Ks, I used the recommended system software, which should be
in an SE manual, but then I used the current printer drivers, and things
worked out fairly well.

In fact, i am going to be trying that again in a few weeks... I will be trying
to hook up 3 SE's and about 6 512KE's (with the double sided drives)....
i'm crossing my fingers that the 512ke's will accept the current laserwriter
drivers. Let me know how you do.




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