cables. I am all ears. What hardware do I need? What are the costs? Where can I purchase it? Or should I just simply stay with the phonenet appletalk connectors?
You can stay with the phonenet connectors and build yourself a big, slow, double network, sure.
Or, as indicated already in the other email, go to ebay, get a EtherMac iPrint localtalk-to-ethernet adapter, and put your Laserwriter on the ethernet network ( you plug the adapter into the (round) printer port on the printer, plug an ethernet cable into the adapter, your postscript printer is now available via the ethernet).
ebay had one for 99cents this AM, but the auction wasn't over yet. Expect to pay $9 to $19 IMO.
This works 'cos the laserwriter is postscript. You'd have to do a couple other things to put say a Stylewriter out there, but that is possible, too.
I have a LaserWriter NTR on my LAN this way, I can print to it from everything from a Newton Messagepad, a 4400, a 6400/G3, and a G4 w/ OS/X, all over ethernet. Nice as newer computers like B/W G3, G4, iMac etc don't have anyplace to hook up a localtalk adapter (no serial port). So those couldn't print to your localtalk printer, should you go the phonenet route.
The only thing that could screw this up, is if your router doesn't pass ethertalk packets, which is unlikely but possible (actually, does the iPrint route over TCP/IP or classic ethertalk? I think the latter, but...). Your IT people should know if they are blocking, sometimes univ. IT departments intentionally block ethertalk to force people to move to AppleshareIP (a TCP/IP-based protocol which they like better). If you can do filesharing between the AIO's via 8.x without using the ServerIP chooser feature, you should be OK.
EBay or your university surplus sales is a good place to find phonenet connectors.
Hope that helps.
Brian --
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