Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!psych
From: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macplus to Laser writer no Apple talk.
Message-ID: <4931@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 88 13:40:40 GMT
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Reply-To: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
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You can hook the laser to the mac with a cable that goes from the
printer port on the mac to the laser. This subsitutes for the localtalk
stuff that apple sells. You do not need to buy the stuff if you are
connecting directly.
For a Mac Plus to a LWII NT or LWII NTX the standard mini din peripheral
cable should work. I have not tried this one.
For a Mac Plus to a LW or LW+ the following cable should work.
MINI DIN 8 =====> DB9
2->7, 3->9, 4->1, 5->5, 6->8, 8->4

An alternative to the above for Mac+ to LW or LW+ is to get
the Apple DB9 female to Mini DIN 8 adapter (M0199) and make a DB9 To DB9
cable connected as follows:
1->1, 3->3, 4->8, 5->9, 7->7, 8->4, 9->5

Its been awhile since I played with this but I am pretty sure everything
here is correct.

Richard Crispin
Dept. of Psychology             Bitnet: psych@watdcs 
University of Waterloo          Unix  : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1
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