You can always
use a terminal server to fix the connection issue.
... except that to connect to a terminal server, the printer
needs to have a serial interface, which is what I was asking
for in first place.
Serial is possible for a 3500, but I'm not sure
that it is a base option (i.e. guaranteed to be there).
Same goes for the NIC interface (there's also an
Appletalk one IIRC).
There is also a DECserver 250 which does have one
parallel interface for a printer: I forget whether
it was centronics or dataproducts or something else.
(Not entirely relevant here since the 3500 won't
have whichever of those old interfaces the
DS250 had, but since it cropped up ...)
Antonio
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