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From: reintom@rocky2.UUCP
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Subject: Printer sharing box for many PC's
Message-ID: <346@rocky2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 14:54:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 14:54:41 1987
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Organization: Rockefeller Univ.,N.Y.C 10021
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"This sentence, though not interrogative, nevertheless ends in a
question mark?"
			-Douglas Hofstadter

We need one of those devices that allow you to share a printer among
several PC's.  We want the kind that will ignore the input of all PC's
other than the one being served at the moment.  We need this because
some PC's will be down the hall from the printer and the PC users
won't want to check to see if the printer is available before they
issue the print command.

I have seen a few advertised but the claims are vague.  Does anyone
have experience with any of these devices?  What should we expect to
spend?  We may get a second printer later so should we get a
print-switch that will address two printers or is it better to get two
print-switches?

Thanckx.

Tom Reingold

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