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From: Wright_RJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Robert Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Parallel printers on a VAX
Message-ID: <4722.274bf821@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 22 Nov 90 08:09:05 GMT
References: <680@incstar.uucp> <1753.2721c4a9@dcs.simpact.com>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <1753.2721c4a9@dcs.simpact.com>, jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes:
> In article <680@incstar.uucp>, lhotka@incstar.uucp (Glamdring) writes:
>> What is the best way to connect [parallel-interface] printers to our 6410 
>> running VMS?  
> 
> Assuming your 6410 has a VAXBI bus (some 6400 configurations live quite happily
> without one), you could get some DMB32's (three of them) to give you three
> parallel ports along with 24 serial ports.  This would be hideously expensive 
> ($15K total) unless you need the 24 extra serial ports anyway. 
> [...]
> Lantronix makes a LAT terminal server with a parallel printer port on it 
> in addition to some number of serial ports.  This makes sense only if you need 
> the extra serial ports anyway; otherwise, use existing serial ports with 
> s-p converters.  
> 

Digital makes the DECserver 250, which, to quote the book, "is a high
performance full-function Ethernet-based server for both parallel and serial
printers".

We have one. It works well.

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