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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ImageWriter I
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.163335.14316@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 16:33:35 GMT
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In article <5826@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>In article <1571@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace 
>Stewart [Jonathan III]) writes:
>> Can, feasibly,
>> a Mac Imagewriter I be placed onto an Appletalk Network chain, and if
>> so...how? And for that matter, if not...why?
>
>I'm afraid it's impossible as the ImageWriter I has only a serial 
>interface.  To be on AppleTalk, a device has to have hardware and software 
>designed for that purpose.

Impossible, no.  Infeasible, no.  Cost-effective, no :-).

There are two routes available, if you REALLY want to do this.  One is
MacServe from InfoSphere.  You run MacServe on a mac, and attach the IW I to
that Mac.  Other macs on the network can then access it.  MacServe is
list priced around $200, I think.

Two, Shiva sells a box called NetSerial (I believe) that lets you hook
any serial device up to an appletalk.  I don't know if this will make the
printer driver happy or not, but it will certainly put the printer on the
network in SOME fashion.  Ask Shiva for details.  The box probably costs
several hundred dollars.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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