Two problems: How to talk to Macs and how to move a printer.

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From: Margot Utterback
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:34

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I am posting this for my husband.  Please respond directly to him.

I have two problems.

The first is that I have a number of Macs on a localtalk connected to 
a Gator box.  The Gator box connects to a network of Suns and MicroVaxen.
Currently the Macs connect to the microVaxen through the serial port using
White Knight as a terminal emulator.  This has limited throughput and also
limits the users to the DecNet systems.  I would like to replace the
serial connections with something that will let the Macs talk to both the
MicroVaxen and Suns.  

The best solution (I think) would be something that would let the MicroVaxen 
talk TCP/IP.  Then I could use NCSA Telnet to contact both the Suns and
the MicroVaxen.  Failing that, something that would let the Macs talk
LAT would work, but they should still have a method to talk TCP/IP.

The second problem is that one of the MicroVaxen has a Dataproducts line
printer on it connected via a parallel cable.  We want to move the printer 
physically away from the MicroVax, further than most parallel cables will 
go.  Is there any thing we can do to locate it far away and use the network?

Our DecRep suggested using a Decserver 250 with parallel ports, but I think 
that will be too expensive.  Any suggestions?

Brian Utterback
Mercury Computer Systems.
blu@mc.com

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Date: 18 Aug 92 16:34:32 EDT
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