Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!portal!sv!daven From: daven@svc.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Two unrelated questions (sideways monitors & appletalk cables) Keywords: monitor appletalk cables Message-ID: <1991Jan12.213455.7162@svc.portal.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 21:34:55 GMT References: <24966@dime.cs.umass.edu> Organization: Software Ventures Corporation, Berkeley Lines: 29 In article <24966@dime.cs.umass.edu> leban@cs.umass.edu (Bruce Leban) writes: >1. Are there any monitors which are page size, landscape orientation? > Radius makes the "Pivot" which can be rotated to that orientation, but > I'm looking for something which is always landscape (and cheaper than > the Pivot or a two page monitor). I don't know of any myself. A Radius TwoPage B&W display is essentially a large landscape orientation monitor. That might be a bit large and expensive for your needs though. >2. I have been told by a usually reliable source (MacConnection) that you > can hook a single Mac up to a single AppleTalk device (e.g, a non-SC > LaserWriter) with an ImageWriter cable, with the implication that > somehow the wires are right for a two node AppleTalk network. Is this > correct? Apple of course says to buy two AppleTalk connector kits. Hmmm. Sounds a bit fishy to me. They might have meant that you can connect to a LaserWriter's serial port using a ImageWriter cable. LaserWriter's can be operated over a serial cable in this manner. I can't imagine an ImageWriter cable would work on a Appletalk port a) becuase the connector is physically different, b) because Localtalk electrical signals are very different from RS-232 electrical signals. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Newman | daven@sv.portal.com | "Hacking only works so far before Software Ventures | AOL: MicroPhone | the tree begins to fall." Berkeley, CA | AppleLink: D0025 | - Rush Drake