DEC LN03R to Mac

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From: Francis Kam
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1988 02:02

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Did anyone connect a Mac (SE or II) to a PostScript laser printer (such
as the DEC LN03R) using RS-232?  The problem is that I don't have any
driver other than the laserprep and laserprinter drivers on the system
disk.  I made a cable using the -Tx and -Rx (instead of the +Tx and +Rx
pins which're told for Appletalk) pins to connect the two but when I
choose LaserWriter in Chooser, it asks for AppleTalk.  It seems to me
that I can either buy a driver that uses RS-232 or brute-force AppleTalk
into RS-232 which I don't know whether it would work.  

If anyone knows any public domain drivers for RS-232 on Mac or the
source, or have done anything like this, please help.

Thank you.

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Francis Kam                           Computer Science Department
Internet: mkkam@sun1.cs.uh.edu        University of Houston
CSNET:    mkkam@houston.csnet         4800 Calhoun
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