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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Networking 2 Macs cheaply:  How do I?
Message-ID: <3663@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 89 05:39:20 GMT
References: <|^'XC@rpi.edu> <3016@plains.UUCP>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
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In article <3016@plains.UUCP> puklich@plains.UUCP (Blayne Puklich) writes:
>In article <|^'XC@rpi.edu> slart@pawl.rpi.edu (David Bolling) writes:
>>My roommate and I each have Mac II's.  They are 50 feet apart from each
>>other in the same apartment.  What are the various ways we can network
>>them together?  Our objectives are:

deleted objectives...

>>      3) share my LaserWriter IISC (if possible).

>You connect them using a bus topology like:
>
>  Mac        Mac        LW
>   ^----------^----------^
>
>That's all you'll really need.  You could add more software, such as laser
>spooling software, but that's not absolutely necessary.


  The LaserWriter IISC does not have a provision for connecting it to an
appletalk network, or so I thought.  There might be some sort of printing
software which one could use to print on a LW IISC connected to another
machine...  a real hacked-up way would be to use an A/B switch made for SCSI
and connect BOTH machines.
  But then you'd have to do your own bus arbitration.

-- Mark Wilkins