Re: SPARCprinter useful?

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From: eli
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00

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they are great old printers...you need the sbus card _and_ the newsprint
software to make it work....newsprint isn't free tho i forget how
expensive it is...and find the patches for it once you install newsprint
as there is a nasty bug that make the daemon sit at the top of the
system processes. otherwise its cake to install and use.
> 
> I have found an old SPARCprinter (circa 1991) c/w cable, manuals &
> possibly sbus card.
> 
> Does anybody know where I can get a copy of newsprint software to run on
> solaris 2?
> Is this software freely available?
> Are there any alternatives to newsprint?
> 
> Can I get the drivers for the sbus card anywhere?
> and at least get the parallel port going?
> 
> Any suggestions for getting it going on a sparc2/solaris 2.5?
> Is it worth getting going?
> --
> Peter Arnold
> +--------------------------------------------+-----------------+
> | Auscad Drafting - Brisbane, Qld, Australia | To err is human |
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From: eli <elaine@artsci.wustl.edu>
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Date: 1996/11/20
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