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Article #39880Re: Appletalk with only 2 nodes -- just a cable !
From: Fred Hollander
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1989 04:30
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1989 04:30
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In article <799@ethz.UUCP> zeller@bernina.UUCP (Lukas Zeller) writes: >I just got a laser printer for my MAC-II. Because it is my only AppleTalk >device (except the MAC itself, of course), I asked my dealer for a simple >cable to connect the Mac with the printer. He told me that this was not >possible and that I had to use two "Appletalk Connectors" (one for the MAC >and one for the printer) plus an "Appletalk Cable". I was slightly surprised B#%%@#IT! (sic) I've already done it. I connected a Mac II to a LW IINT using the ImageWriter II cable. Everything worked fine. I later verified this setup with an Apple rep as I wondered if there was someone less than obvious to be lost (like speed). He checked and said there was no reason not to use the IW cable. Fred Hollander Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Inc. hollander@ti.com The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!killer!pollux!ti-csl!m2!holland From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Appletalk with only 2 nodes -- just a cable ! Message-ID: <73234@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> Date: 25 Mar 89 04:30:01 GMT References: <799@ethz.UUCP> Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com Reply-To: holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 19