30 Dec
2001
30 Dec
'01
10:35 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tothwolf" <tothwolf(a)concentric.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 05:06 PM
Subject: Re: NEXT Color Printer find
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Robert Schaefer wrote:
I was thinking that in these times of swiss-army-chips, there would be some
kind of controller with SCSI-1 and parallel onboard. Be a whole lot faster
to print across a SCSI -> parallel bridge than a serial cable, I'd imagine.
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 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.
I've heard of those too, and was thinking about getting one for some of the
older macs I had, before I decided to get rid of 'em. IIRC they weren't the
most elegant of things, and drivers were a problem.
-Toth
Bob