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John,  you have a good project in mind.  My understanding of how a home
phoneline Appletalk network would work is this:

Most modern phone lines have four wires (Red,Green,Yellow,Black).  The red-
green form a pair and are the middle two on a modular RJ11 phone plug.  The
phone uses this as 'line1' - the standard phone line.  The yellow-black form
'line2' and are usually unused - these will become your localtalk (appletalk)
lines.  Use farallon phonenet connectors or equivalents.  Connect each device
(computer or appletalk printer) to the phone line using the phonenet connectors
Use the dummy phone plugs with resistors (should be included with the phonenet
connectors) to fill any empty phone sockets (ie, terminators).  I've never
hooked a phone and a Appletalk device into a phonenet connector but I hope the
wiring is OK for phone use (it should be, phonenet uses the two outer wires so
I hope it preserves the integrity of the two inner 'phone' wires).

Printers attached to a computer are _not_ shared; they can only be used by
that computer.  To be shared (networked), a printer has to be Appletalk
connected (eg. LaserWriter II or appletalk imagewriter II) with its own phone-
net connector.

If you get an appletalk network running, you might be tempted to pick up a
used system 7 mac for file sharing too.

Good luck!

  --Steve                             steven-nelson@uiowa.edu