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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ImageWriter I
Summary: Try a NetSerial
Keywords: ImageWriter I, AppleTalk, LocalTalk, NetSerial
Message-ID: <1790@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 19:29:03 GMT
Expires: 22 Dec 89 05:00:00 GMT
References: <1571@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <5826@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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>In <1571@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) 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?

To which <5826@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) replies:
>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.

What David failed to codify in his "impossible" reply is that it is 
impossible USING APPLE-SUPPLIED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE.  However, this should be
possible using the Shiva NetSerial (from what I've read about it -- I've 
never even SEEN a real live one).

For a company that expects third-party developers to provide most of what the
user community wants (and sometimes appears to use that statement as a way to 
get out of explaining why they don't provide it), they sure don't do much to 
promote those third-party developers......

M. A. Pasek          Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
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pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM                               Roseville, MN  55113