mccarthy@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (08/31/87)
Hi there.
I'm having a real problem with one of the most archaic Mac systems
there is: an Imagewriter I, hooked to a Mac XL.
Here's the problem: Once upon a time, I had this same system hooked
up, with a port to the campus LAN (Sytek for those who care) on the modem
port, and the Imagewriter on the printer port. Everything went just
peachy. Then I got access to a Mac Plus and said "Oh boy, now I can
use that instead!" Alas, the Plus had only an AppleTalk port. But this
didn't turn out to be a major problem - I kludged my way around it by
putting an AppleTalk XL Connector Cable (has your standard 25-pin connector
but only pins 2,3,19, and 20 actually exist, on one end; and an AppleTalk
Connector Box on the other) on the printer and a normal 8-pin AppleTalk
Connector on the Plus. This worked fine too.
Then, to my chagrin, they took my Plus away, so I had to dust off the
XL and hook it back up again. But NOOOO!!! Now it won't print a darn thing!
No matter what I try. I tried disconnecting AppleTalk; no good, it wasn't
connected anyway. I tried using another Imagewriter; that didn't help.
I moved the Imagewriter to another (dumb) terminal with a printer port;
it worked fine there, so it's not the cable either. Everything is in its
proper place in both the Control Panel and the Chooser... printer port is
selected, AppleTalk is still disconnected, etc. Here's a schematic of
what the system looks like now:
_______________
|T~~~~~~~T |
|| | -- | plain ol' ribbon cable T~T~~~~~~~~T~~~T
||_______| |===========================| | | |D
--------------- | ~~~~~~~~~~ |
_____________L___ |______________|
/ q w e r t y u i \
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That's about it, besides the power cords and the LAN cable...
Stupefyingly simple yet I still don't know what's wrong with it.
Please help!
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The Mental Midget Member, ECIS - S division
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"A masterful retreat is itself a victory." N. V. Peale cbenda@unccvaxb.UUCP (carl m benda) (09/03/87)
About a year ago I had essentially the same setup. I believe that all that is necessary is to place a null modem cable between the XL and the Imagewriter. /Carl ....mcnc!unccvax!cbenda