iMac to SE, iMac to StyleWriter II
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We recently bought an iMac and I was wondering how to hook it up to our
StyleWriter II and our old computer, an SE. Is it possible to put them all
on a network? LocalTalk or Ethernet? The SE doesn't have an Ethernet port.
If Ethernet would be the best route, where might I get a card (?) for the
SE?
Thank you.
Jeffrey J. Sparks
P.S. when will the new Duckware CD be available?
joe...@darkwing.uoregon.edu
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Jeff and Amy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We recently bought an iMac and I was wondering how to hook it up to our
> StyleWriter II and our old computer, an SE.
Nope. Apple wants you to buy a new printer with your Imac. In the future
rs232 serial port expanders for usb might be sold with drivers for the mac
but I wouldn't hold your breath. Style writers are not appletalk printers.
Your se probably doesn't have a modern enough os to run the old grayshare
software to share the stylewriter over a local talk network, and even if
it did There's no telling if the old style-writer localtalk extension
would run on the system included in the new imac.
> Is it possible to put them all
> on a network? LocalTalk
asante is supposed to eventually sell an ethernet to local-talk adapter
but you'd get relativly abysmal performance out of that.
> or Ethernet? The SE doesn't have an Ethernet port.
Ethernet for an se is spendy, either in terms of an external scsi-ethernet
adaptor wich is about $250, or in terms of internal cards for an se
which are rare beasts indeed these days.
> If Ethernet would be the best route, where might I get a card (?) for the
> SE?
retiring the se would probably be the best route.
> Thank you.
> Jeffrey J. Sparks
>
> P.S. when will the new Duckware CD be available?
begining of the new term.
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pages which discuss many of these issues. If you would like to see what
Apple has to say about connecting devices to your iMac (basically purchase
adaptors, not yet available, for your USB ports) check out:
http://support.info.apple.com/support/imac/index.html
On the main iMac page at apple
you can go to the bottom of the page to see what is currently available.
There are three printers from Epson, Hewlett-Packard and Alps that work
with USB and have Apple-ready drivers. A description of these can be found
at:
http://www.apple.com/imac/usb1.html
Basically Apple has pushed the iMac for home users as a standalone machine,
or for those who want to buy all new components.
Best of luck!
Sincerely,
Microcomputer Services at microhelp@oregon
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>Hi,
>
>We recently bought an iMac and I was wondering how to hook it up to our
>StyleWriter II and our old computer, an SE. Is it possible to put them all
>on a network? LocalTalk or Ethernet? The SE doesn't have an Ethernet port.
>If Ethernet would be the best route, where might I get a card (?) for the
>SE?
>
dalb...@shaney.uoregon.edu
http://www.farallon.com/products/ether/adapters/iprintadapter.html
No idea if it is cost effective...
-Dan