Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!macman
From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <449@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 16:07:31 GMT
References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <8805041543.AA16557@ssyx.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Lines: 18
Keywords: laserwriter, coin, charge

>... What alternatives are there?  We charge .25 a page for the LW
>and the IWII is free.   

The IFI (inst of Computer Science) at the University of Zuerich has
developed a printed circuit board whichdoes just that. it uses a coin
device (the kind you find commonly on photocopy machines) attached to
the LW. However, this method is only useable in situations with low
to medium printer traffic (we have a room with 32 macs, two of which
only are connected to the LW), for obvious reasons.

-- Danny

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