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From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Appletalk with only 2 nodes -- just a cable !
Message-ID: <423e22f7.1a7ab@cumin.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 89 23:23:00 GMT
References: <799@ethz.UUCP>
Reply-To: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering
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In article <799@ethz.UUCP> zeller@bernina.UUCP (Lukas Zeller) writes:
>I just got a laser printer for my MAC-II. Because it is my only AppleTalk
>device (except the MAC itself, of course), I asked my dealer for a simple
>cable to connect the Mac with the printer.
>
>I wonder if such a cable is available commercially and/or if it is common to
>sell a $200 appletalk where a $15 cable would do it as well. Or is anything
>wrong with my solution (except that no additional nodes can be connected
>to this "net", of course !) ?
>
>Lukas Zeller                     +---------------------------+

Yeah, it's real easy to get a cable commercially.  Any standard ImageWriter
printer cable will work just fine for connecting a two node AppleTalk network.
It's essentially a null modem cable.  As you said when you made your cable,
the pinouts are the same as the standard modem cable.  This is no coincidence.

-Ace