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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Personal LaserWriters announced
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Date: 11 Jul 90 23:34:21 GMT
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In article <44794@brunix.UUCP>, mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale) writes:
> In article <1990Jul11.131926.5416@cbnewsh.att.com> brion@cbnewsh.att.com 
> (brion.n.feinberg) writes:
> > Oh yea, for a little more money, you can put the IIP on Localtalk.  I
> 
>  Well the AppleTalk board for the LaserJet 3 is $215 retail and I'd suspect
> the IIP would be the same. 
> 
> > Admittedly, the slow communication (19.6 K) of this set up can be
> > a bottleneck, slowing printing down to over 10 minutes a page
> > sometimes.
> 
>  One advantage of having a Mac with a parallel port is that I can transfer
> it over at 57.?k baud (or whatever that top setting is.) It transfers pages
> very fast. (I case your wondering, its an Atari with Mac emulation.)

And if you have the AppleTalk board, your bits go down the wire at around
230K bps.  (750K with FlashTalk?)  If you have AppleTalk (or LocalTalk, this
week).

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