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In article <1992Oct8.023058.27250@news.csuohio.edu>  
cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes:
> 1. Do you need the CD-ROM player to install the drivers?  considering  
that
> these CD-ROM players are hopelessly backlogged, and considering the fact
> that we may not see 3.0 for QUITE a long time, this is not so promising  
for
> many of us caught in the crunch.

You need either: access to a CD-ROM; or a machine on a net with a full 3.0  
installation.  For the former, check out the User Groups.  All American  
user groups were offered reduced price CD-ROM drives on condition that the  
drives were available to members wishing to upgrade.  This offer never  
made it to the primitives living in Europe, of course.  The UK "3.0 and  
CD-ROM drive" was between $840 and $1,000 dollars (depending on the  
exchange rate) to start with.  I would bet that NeXT order management WILL  
get out the user group drives early.

> 2. What cable configuration does a standard parallel printer use (saw  
none
> in the FAQ)?  I think we will eventually be ordering some of these  
cables
> for our Epsons and IBM Proprinters.

You can't connect a parallel printer, except through a converter box (you  
can get these things, check out a Inmac catalog).  You can only connect  
serial printers to a NeXT.

Paul
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