Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!violet!pmbergland
From: pmbergland@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Per Bergland)
Subject: Two AppleTalk boxes or one cable?
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.174801.11329@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 91 17:48:01 GMT
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I posted this question before, but I didn't get an answer, so I repeat it:

If you have an AppleTalk zone with only two nodes (computer & laserprinter),
can you skip the AppleTalk $50 boxes and go directly from AppleTalk output
on the computer to AppleTalk i/o on the printer, or do you screw up
any impedances or other technicalities?
If it works, will an Imagewriter cable do?

I heard that there's supposed to be a serial Laserwriter driver.
Could someone send it to me so that I can use the serial port as such
and skip the AppleTalk boxes if the above solution doesn't work.

Thanx,
Per
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