On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote:
> 1) How easy/hard was it to handle basic networking in 1995?
>
> 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. 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.
>
> 2) How sophisticated was scanning in 1995? What about OCR?
Networking was pretty simple if you had an all-Mac network; LocalTalk
was standard, and plugging the machines together automatically created a
network where they could all 'see' each other.
If you don't have LocalTalk-compatible devices in mind, you're probably
better off with an A-B switch. Most devices of that era that were not made for
Macs were difficult to work with from a Mac across a network.
Scanning/OCR on Macs was way ahead of the state of the art on PCs for
the time, but it was still nowhere near as good as devices today are. Most
packages were specific to the device, but there were a few that were made as
standalone packages. The only name that comes to mind is Ofoto, but I know that
there were a few others.
-- Ed Leafe
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