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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Cheap file transfer? (was Re: Mac IISi vs. HP DeskWriter = Fried Mac??)
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.225439.17742@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 90 22:54:39 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.192045.1724@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, I wrote:
> In article <4281@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, houlejm@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Jean-Marie Houle) writes:
> > If you need only a two nodes Appletalk network You can go without 
> > AppleTalk boxes. Just connect the two nodes with a printer cable.
> If this is true, presumably one can do file transfer between 2 Macs using
> a printer cable and free/PD AppleTalk-based stuff like Public Folder or
> the forthcoming personal AppleShare. Has anyone tried this?

To answer my own question - I just tried it and it works (using Public
Folder 1.0 and an ImageWriter II cable, I copied a whole bunch of stuff off
an old Plus onto my new cx).
> Sounds a lot
> better than shuffling diskettes (not to mention saving wear and tear). If
> this is so easy / cheap, why is it not advertized as a "feature"?

Seems to work really well - can anyone think of a reason not to do
this?
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu