sparc 2/sparcprinter/S-Bus expansion/TOPS

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From: Tim Tsai
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 18:40

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  A professor here is interested in purchasing a Sparcstation 2, and
he's run into a few questions.  His current environment is several
PC's, a Macintosh, a ImageWriter II, and an Apple Laserwriter NTX.
Current all the machines run TOPS using twisted pair, but he's wired for
ethernet and may go that route in the future.

  1)  He's purchasing the GX option, and 2 669 meg hard drives..  The
current configuration will take up all 3 S-Bus slots.  This doesn't
leave room for the printer controller.  Who makes S-Bus expansion
chasis, and what are their prices?

  2)  The Sun technical support said that he can NOT print from a Mac or
PC to a Sparc2 with a Sparcprinter (the postscript printer)..  Are there
alternative solutions (third party, etc).

  Many thanks in advanced..

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