[comp.sys.mac] EtherTalk/LaserWriter question

yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC) (07/28/89)

Is anybody familiar with any product that will allow a LaserWriter
to be hooked up over an EtherTalk network, rather than being
LocalTalk'ed to a Mac?

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truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) (07/28/89)

yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC) writes:

>Is anybody familiar with any product that will allow a LaserWriter
>to be hooked up over an EtherTalk network, rather than being
>LocalTalk'ed to a Mac?

Good question, Ross!

I know an answer, but it is not the way to go:
  Kinetics FastPath. 

Ouch!  costs around $1500 for our special University of California
discount.  I think they are around $2400 otherwise. This is overkill,
as a FastPath is designed to handle an entire LocalTalk internet, not
just one device.  Unfortunately, the electronics involved are pretty
much the same.

This COULD POSSIBLY be a product begging to be marketed, for all 
you lurking entrepeneurs.


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Scott Truesdell