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From: wilkins@jarthur.claremont@canremote.uucp (wilkins@jarthur.Claremont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Networking 2 Macs cheaply
Message-ID: <89122504043120@masnet.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 89 05:05:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Subj: Networking 2 Macs cheaply:  How do I?
Orga: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

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

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