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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Nice way for 5 PCs to share a printer?
Keywords: serial ports, Printer sharing
Message-ID: <367@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 88 16:57:38 GMT
References: <25650@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <25650@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, davidg@janus.berkeley.edu (David Gaertner) writes:
> Does anybody know of a nice, simple, and inexpensive way to hook 5 PCs
> to a laser printer?  I thought of TOPS using just NetPrint, but there
> must be a cheaper solution.  The computers are in different offices, so
> something that uses the parallel ports probably wouldn't do it.
> 
> David Gaertner

It's crude, but it's also cheap and it works.  Get a buffer box with 5
input serial ports, or two of the 4 input buffer boxes feeding into a
third buffer box.

Clayton E. Cramer