Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!thirdi.UUCP!sarge From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers Subject: Re: laser writer - macs and ibms at the same time. Message-ID: <8707151332.AA02500@brillig.umd.edu> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 22:11:58 EDT Article-I.D.: brillig.8707151332.AA02500 Posted: Wed Jul 8 22:11:58 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:00:43 EDT References: <8707081857.AA07603@brillig.umd.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: thirdi!sarge@brillig.umd.edu (Sarge Gerbode) Distribution: world Organization: Third Eye Software, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 25 Approved: laser-lovers@brillig.umd.edu In article <8707081857.AA07603@brillig.umd.edu> Weinstein@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes: >I remember reading some time ago that someone had a laser writer with >both macs on the appletalk net and an ibm on the rs232 port both using >the laser writer. > >Is this possible? > >What needs to be done to accomplish this. I don't know about IBM's, but we have a mini computer with Berkeley 4.2 on the 9600 baud port and a mac on the appletalk one, and they work fine. You just turn the switch from one to the other, depending on what you need. Don't need to reboot the printer, in our experience. -- "From his own viewpoint, no one ever has false beliefs; he only *had* false beliefs." Sarge Gerbode Institute for Research in Metapsychology 950 Guinda St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 UUCP: pyramid!thirdi!sarge