Hi,
Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> said:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 04 17:20:34 PDT
> msokolov_at_ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
>
> > > I have it connected to my PC with a standard printer cable.
> > Well, that won't work for me since I don't use pee seas.
> There are "print servers". Litle boxes with a Centronics parallel port
> on one side and Ethernet on the other side. Much like a terminal server.
> Most of them talk TCP/IP and the BSD LPR/LPD network protocol, so it is
> trivial to interface them to a VAX running BSD UNIX.
Or perhaps even cheaper, any old PC, 386 up, a network card, and a copy
of FreeSCO*. A very cut-down Linux. Boots off the floppy, runs
entirely in RAM if you have 16+Mb and needs no hard disk. I use it as
a print server running on a junk 486 someone gave me.
* Named for Free (CI)SCO - not SCO!
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 12:43:06 BST