NEXT Color Printer find

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Jan 3 09:13:51 2002

One of ADAPTEC's more successful items in the mid-'80's was their "Nodem,"
which was a SCSI <=> ETHERNET bridge box. There are also plenty of ETHERNET
<=> printer port devices about. If you combined those, perhaps that would
do what you need without trying to whittle it yourself.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woyciesjes" <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: RE: NEXT Color Printer find


> ! From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf_at_concentric.net]
> !
> !
> ! On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> !
> ! > I would imagine it was to talk to the printer. IIRC early Macs used
> ! > SCSI printers, too. Pretty neat. I wonder how hard a SCSI <->
> ! > parallel interface would be to build.
> !
> ! I seem to remember seeing a few companies offer these kinds
> ! of bridges,
> ! but I doubt they would work for anything other then a printer.
>
> I have here on my desk, an UNused Hewlett Packard 88395 SCSI/Parallel
> Interface. With it's power supply. :-) Need any more info? Like what's
> inside?
>
> ! I have a SCSI <-> ethernet bridge around here somewhere. I
> ! think it was
> ! made for older Macs that lacked nubus or another means of
> ! expansion. It
> ! reports itself as a disk device, but I haven't done much with it yet.
>
> That's a neat thing. Do you remember who the manufacturer is?
>
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