Subject: Re: personal laserwriter
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: David Johnston <david@canopus.apana.org.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/19/2001 13:38:08
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:59:03PM -0500, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> At 7:25 PM +0100 12/18/01, marc wrote:
> >I found a personal laserwriter(probably NT) that connects scsi or atalk-serial
>
> The IINT has a parallel port and an RS232 (or 422 as that's what the
> Macs used). If it has a SCSI port, it's in order to plug in a hard
> drive, not to connect it to a computer.
>
> There are three ways for you to use the IINT:
>
> 1) Hook it up to a PeeCee's parallel port
>
> 2) Hook it up to a NetBSD Mac, with the settings set to use serial,
> and not LocalTalk
I used this method a few years ago to hook a IIsi running NetBSD to a
laserwriter IINT. It worked pretty well, though was kind of slow.
It took a lot of frustrating experimentation to get the flow control correct.
I think I ended up making my own cable.
david
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