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From: jjk@jupiter.astro.umd.edu (Jim Klavetter)
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Subject: one printer and two networks:  macs and [some serial port]
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Date: 19 Apr 91 17:52:24 GMT
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In thanks to some of the questions which were answered by the net, I
will tell you what we did to share a printer (IINT) amonst macs and a
network of sun workstations.  From Extended Systems, we bought a box
called a bridgeport.  It takes the serial input of the suns (via a
cable adaptor) and the appletalk connector of the mac as input and
outputs either a serial (which we chose) or a parellel signal to a
printer.  It will print from either the mac or the ethernetted suns
without any switching by the user.  Very convenient.

I hear there is also a way to do it with software if you have an
ethernet care for your mac.

jjk@astro.umd.edu also for Athabasca and Reudi
Jim Klavetter
Astronomy
UMD
College Park, MD  20742