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From: whelan@donald.wslab.Hawaii.Edu (The Obscure Guru)
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Subject: Re: Request for info. - Connecting a LASERWRITER to
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Date: 18 Oct 90 05:01:47 GMT
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In article <31318@netnews.upenn.edu> ross@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Ross Porter) writes:
=> In article <9848.6109.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Barry Bailey writes:
=> >   In my pursuit of the ideal office I was wondering if there exists
=> >   some combination of hardware and software to directly connect our
=> >   Apple LaserWriter Plus printer to our Ethernet LAN and have the
=> >   ability to access this printer from Windows 3.0?

=> I've seen ads for Dayna's $499 EtherTalk.  From what I understand it's
=> essentially a rather specific brdige connecting an Ethernet and a
=> LocalTalk network.  (801) 531-0203.  I don't know whose software you'd
=> use for print redirection.  $499 is certainly a lot cheaper than a 
=> FastPath.  If anyone is actually using this device, please post.

	We've been using Dayna's EtherTalk bridge (or whatever its called)
and it is very limited.  It will take an appletalk packet that is on
ethernet and put it onto a localtalk network and vice versa.  There is
no protocol translation so you can't use it to access the laserprinter
via TCP/IP on the ethernet side, and you can only use it for printers,
which seemed a bit odd. 
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