Suns, one mac, and one laserprinter

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From: Renee Mattie
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 14:53

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We have some Sun 3/50's in our office, plus a mac and an Apple 
laserwriter. 

We would like to set things up so that we can use the laserwriter
to print from either the Sun network (NFS) or the mac (which has had
no communications hardware or software added to it), but we want to
spend zero money on it.

I have been told that the quickest and cheapest solution is to 
plug both the mac and a sun into the laserprinter, then  flip
its switch  from one port to the other, depending on which machine
we want to print stuff from at the moment.

If anyone knows of another (extremely inexpensive) way to do this --
especially one where we won't have to manually flip switches, I would
appreciate your advice.

I understand that this message will be posted on a bulletin board,
but please send replies directly to me, as I cannot get to the 
bulletin board

Thank you

Renee Mattie
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania       mattie@a.chem.upenn.edu
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323

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