On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> The bridge is a little connection, that transforms serial Appletalk into ethernet. > Ansanté and Farallon sell these bridges. These printers were connected to old > Macintosh computers to a serial port. Nowadays, these port are no longer on new Macs > and these bridges can then be used to connect these printers to newer Macs. I have a > Laserwriter 320 (bought it for 75 guilders, plus a newly filled toner a 100 guilders, > sum = 175 guilders) connected to an iMac 400 with such a bridge, I should check at > home the brand name of the bridge. > So it sounds much like a print server, which you treat like an lpd server on another machine. You just setup the server name or IP and the port (some, like one of mine have multiple ports), along with your printer type etc. The existing tools allow this type of setup now. > These bridges are also very cheap, I bought one for eighty guilders (around 35 euro). > > This could be bought by you I think as people donate to the ppc-port, don't they ? > People do donate I suppose, but that money doesn't land in my expense account. You're working under the assumption that the PPC port is profitable and there is extra money to expand the effort, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
