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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Panasonic and //GS compatibility.
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 07:46:08 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- seane@pro-scat.cts.com (Sean Eller) writes:
-
- >Hi, I've been looking at a printer which seems to be pretty cheap and
- >wanted to know if I'll be able to use it on my GS. It's a Panasonic 1123i
- >24-pin printer. One guy I talked to said that if I used appletalk I could
- >hook it up to my Macintosh. So I'm assuming if I wanted I could buy
- >appletalk adapters and hook it into my GS, right? Is there any other
- >alternative such as direct-connect to the printer? Any help would be
- >appreciated. Thanks...
-
- Unless Panasonic has gone through a Mac renaissance in the last six months, I
- would say this guy is full of crap. This series of printers (I have an 1124i,
- and I love it) offers a centronics parallel port standard, and a serial port
- as an option. The serial port option costs extra and is _not_ AppleTalk. The
- parallel port is about 10 times faster for transmitting bitmaps anyway, so I
- would highly recommend getting a parallel card and using Harmonie with it.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
-