On 8/12/10 9:47 AM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote: > Heya, > > I write a certain amount of fiction (not much), but I like having some > realism. So I have some questions for anyone familiar with the Macintosh > of the mid-90s. I last used a Mac a lot earlier than that -- I still have > one of the original Color Mac IIs (not that it's working). Anyway... > > 1) How easy/hard was it to handle basic networking in 1995?
1995-era Macs had TCP/IP available plus 100BT ethernet, if not built-in then available to plug into an available PCI slot. > I'm basically looking at two machines, a Color LaserJet (or another > brand of color laser printer if one was available for the Mac), and a > scanner. Color laser printers back then would have been extremely expensive. > Could a network handle all of these things, or would it have been > better/easier to just hook a scanner to one machine and use an A-B switch > of some kind on the printer? In the latter case, file sharing could be > done with diskettes, of course, but sharing across the network would be > easier. Sneakernet was probably pretty common, but I had my wife's G3 machine which she bought new in 1994 I think networked with my Windows NT network and we used FTP to transfer files around. > 2) How sophisticated was scanning in 1995? What about OCR? Don't know about scanning or OCR. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
