Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!occrsh!uokmax!blknowle
From: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macplus to Laser writer no Apple talk.
Message-ID: <1655@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 88 17:44:15 GMT
References: <290@cmv.dsir.govt.nz>
Reply-To: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <290@cmv.dsir.govt.nz> srchbgm@cmv.dsir.govt.nz writes:
>HI, has anyone out there attached a Lazer writer directly to the printer
>port of their MAC Plus? I do not wish to purchase the APPLE Talk hardware
>but instead connect directly to the printer.

> [stuff deleted about "if I can do this, what more info do I need..."]

Bruce, as far as I know, there is no way you can do this feasibly.
One of the primary reasons LocalTalk (used to be "AppleTalk") is the
single most common LAN in the world is the fact that to hook up to a
LaserWriter requires the shortest LAN known to man -- a single cable
going between two LocalTalk connectors, one on your Mac, one on the
LaserWriter.  PERHAPS you could fiddle around with using it through
the serial ports, but this would be very non-standard, you would have
to write all your own drivers for it, etc...  This is why everybody
who hooks up to a LaserWriter uses LocalTalk.

Sorry to burst your bubble (and make your wallet scream in agony...)

>Regards Bruce Muschamp.  SRCHBGM%CMV%VUWCOMP@UUNET.UU.NET   ( Bit net)
>                         SRCHBGM%CMV.DSIR.GOVT.NZ@UUNET.UU.NET  (Internet)

Nice to meecha!

-Brad Knowles

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