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From: fred@cdin-1.uucp (Fred Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Terminal and printer on 1 modem
Keywords: Terminal, printer, modem
Message-ID: <90@cdin-1.uucp>
Date: 23 Dec 88 16:53:47 GMT
References: <178@loft386.UUCP> <88@cdin-1.uucp>
Organization: CompuData Inc., Philadelphia PA
Lines: 46

In article <88@cdin-1.uucp>, fred@cdin-1.uucp (Fred Rump) writes:
-  In article <178@loft386.UUCP- , sdg@loft386.UUCP (Steve Goodrich) writes:
-  ,-  I have an interesting problem:  I need a way to use both a printer
-  ,-  and a terminal on one modem.  Multiplexers and stat-muxes are too
-    [stuff deleted]
- 
-  ,-  In order to do this, she needs to have both a printer and a terminal at
-  ,-  home.
-  ,- 
-  ,-  I think that
-  ,-  there must be a better answer, though.  In my mind, a person should be
-  ,-  able to live with only having to purchase two modems and one phone line.
- 
-  ,-  Therefore, I'd like to solicit your help:  you've seen my problem.  Can
-  ,-  you help me find a way to get her a terminal and a printer at home with
-  ,-  only one modem?  I'll take all the help I can get.
- 
-  Well this is an easy one. Anybody ever hear of transparent printing?
-  We use it all the time at terminals in house. The customer would have a bunch
-  of terminals scattered all over a building or set of buildings. Rather than
-  have users climb all over themselves to get to a central printer, they have a
-  little cheapy right at their terminal plugged into the aux port.
- 
-  Arnet and others have available transparent printing drivers that share the
-  one line while the SLOW user types at his station the printer gets plenty of
-  spare time to print at the same time.
- 
-  I would suggest you give your local Arnet vendor a call. You do need the smart
-  card though. I suppose nobody buys the dumn one anymore.
-  fred rump
After I wrote this last night I had second thoughts. Maybe you need a special
cabling arrangement that can't be used via modem. Checking here at the office
this morning reveals that we've used a small multiplexor/modem arrangement for
this type of thing. Perhaps others have some input?   
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CompuData, Inc.        |  or ...{allegra killer gatech!uflorida decvax!ucf-cs}
10501 Drummond Rd.     |         !ki4pv!cdis-1!cdin-1!fred
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