[comp.sys.mac.hardware] EtherPrint & EtherPrint+ Questions

pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul BIG-EARS Menon) (04/10/91)

Dear Netters,
    Please advise ...

    Exactly what does EtherPrint/EtherPrint do?

    A description I have here says ...
	EtherPrint - Ethernet to Localtalk Printer Connector with direct
		     connection to thick or thin ethernet cabling.
	EtherPrint Plus
		   - Ethernet to Localtalk Printer Connector-4 Port with
		     direct connection to thick or thin ethernet cabling.
    
    Now, my questions ...

    For Ether of the above :-) - does one end up with Localtalk one one side?
    Never mind what is allowed here.  ie, can I have a (long) Localtalk cable
    on this side to attach my LaserWriter (which comes after a 
    Localtalk connector)?

    For EtherPrint Plus - does this mean I can have 4 (longish) Localtalk cables
    going to 4 different LaserWriters?

    My questions arise from having LaserWriters not being in the same vicinity, 
    and definitely not desired to be in the same location as 
    EtherPrint/EtherPrint+.

    No, can't hold my breath till June - we already have them ...

  Thankyou, 
  (please mail too - that way I don't miss a response)


    Paul Menon,
    Dept of Computer Science,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 
    124 Latrobe Street,
    Melbourne 3001, 
    Victoria, Australia.

pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
PH:	+61 3 660 3209

sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata) (04/11/91)

In article <5195@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul BIG-EARS Menon) writes:
>Dear Netters,
>    Please advise ...
>
>    Exactly what does EtherPrint/EtherPrint do?
>
>    A description I have here says ...
>	EtherPrint - Ethernet to Localtalk Printer Connector with direct
>		     connection to thick or thin ethernet cabling.
>	EtherPrint Plus
>		   - Ethernet to Localtalk Printer Connector-4 Port with
>		     direct connection to thick or thin ethernet cabling.
>    
>    Now, my questions ...
>
>    For Ether of the above :-) - does one end up with Localtalk one one side?

EtherPrint is an Ethertalk to Appletalk converter.
	Variety of ethernet cable support on one side and din-8 on the other.
I think the Plus model has Localtalk on the other side
	and handles up to four devices.

>    Never mind what is allowed here.  ie, can I have a (long) Localtalk cable
>    on this side to attach my LaserWriter (which comes after a 
>    Localtalk connector)?

On the Etherprint plus maybe...  Why not run the ethernet cable ???

>
>    For EtherPrint Plus - does this mean I can have 4 (longish) Localtalk cables
>    going to 4 different LaserWriters?

Looks that way, but not quite sure on the cable length limit.


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