Re(2): [WinMac] Apple Personal LawerWriter NT.

Subject: Re(2): [WinMac] Apple Personal LawerWriter NT.
From: Brian Durant (durant[at]cbn.net.id)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 03:36:19 EST

>You need two: a serial printer cable (aka a null-modem cable) that'll take
>you from the serial port on the PC to the serial port on the LaserWriter.
>Standard pin-outs here, just get the right size connector on each end (I
>think it's a DB-9 female to DB-25 male that you need, but I could be wrong <
>I'm going off memory on this, and that been a dangerous thing lately.)

I have a cable that originally came with an early version of DataViz'
Conversions Plus Deluxe. It is a two part cable. The one looks like an
Apple serial cable at the one end and a 25 pin male (parallel˙) at the
other end. The second part is a 25 pin female (parallel˙) at the one end
and a 9 pin female (serial˙) at the other. The two parts have a standard
PC screw together thingy. The 9 pin female (serial˙) looks like the
standard end on an external PC modem.

>Then you need software to make the PC speak AppleTalk. If you're using NT or
>Windows 2000 (and possibly some of the other, newer PC OS's < again, I don1t
>remember exactly which) you don1t need anything else < they have AppleTalk
>built-in for printing. I know that if it's Windows 95 or 98 or 98SE, you'll
>need third-party software. I've used PC MacLAN in the past, but I'm sure
>there are other solutions that fellow posters can suggest.

I also have PC MacLAN. I am planning on using this with Win ME. I know, I
know, but a lot of the programs I use are Win 98, 98 SE, ME and NT 4
compliant and my local tech guy only has Win 2k Pro. I don't want to have
to go through the hassle of setting up special layers for some of the
software. Besides, I would like to try some of the PC games that I have
missed out on all of these years ;-) The problem is of course, drivers
for the Personal LaserWriter NT. Doesn't PC MacLAN have Apple printer
drivers included˙˙ Any ideas˙˙˙

>I had no problems with the serial cable and PC MacLAN under Windows 98. You
>probably need to change the jumper setting on the back of the LaserWriter to
>tell it you're sending Postscript over AppleTalk via the serial port. That
>setting, I think, is slightly different for each of the LaserWriter II
>series, but your manual should identify what you need. Other posters can
>probably help here, too. Oh, and all of Apple manuals are available at
>Apple's web site and a few people's personal pages, too, if you can1t find
>yours.

If the cable I have could be used for this, why would I need to change
the jumper setting˙˙

Cheers,

Brian

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