jjk@jupiter.astro.umd.edu (Jim Klavetter) (04/20/91)
In thanks to some of the questions which were answered by the net, I will tell you what we did to share a printer (IINT) amonst macs and a network of sun workstations. From Extended Systems, we bought a box called a bridgeport. It takes the serial input of the suns (via a cable adaptor) and the appletalk connector of the mac as input and outputs either a serial (which we chose) or a parellel signal to a printer. It will print from either the mac or the ethernetted suns without any switching by the user. Very convenient. I hear there is also a way to do it with software if you have an ethernet care for your mac. jjk@astro.umd.edu also for Athabasca and Reudi Jim Klavetter Astronomy UMD College Park, MD 20742