Re: Apple II LocalTalk Card

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@pacific.net.au>]

Charles Stephens wrote:
 
> The connector has two 8-pin mini-din connectors.  One is for the LocalTalk
> dongle (which you can plug in phone net adaptors) and the other is a printer
> passthru port.  Originally there was a floppy for ProDOS (it does not work
> with DOS 3.3) which includes a chooser application and the drivers to mount
> file systems from a Mac.  It is all pretty transparent to ProDOS as it can
> use path names to access devices so it should work with most behaved ProDOS
> apps (like AppleWorks).

Can you explain the pass-thru printer port a bit more? I've used a WS
card many
many years ago that was booting a //e and allowing access to a
laserwriter
on a localtalk network. Does the port function as a fully capable RS-422
communications
port, or just some RS-422 or 232 subset that allows it to run a serial
printer locally ?

Cheers,

Matt