On 2/8/2000 11:36 AM, Paul F. Butler [mailto:butler@nfld.com] wrote:
>Now for the good news.
>I removed all traces of NCU once more and reinstalled it. It now works
>perfectly. I'm guessing something was corrupted. Any thoughts? On an
>additional but related matter. The suggestions were to use AppleTalk. I
>prefer a serial connection because AppleTalk, although claiming to be
>disconnected, refuses to let me use my printer port until I reboot my Mac. A
>serial connection allows me to freely move from having my Newton connected
>to having a printer connected. I see this disadvantage to AppleTalk. What
>are the benefits
Benefits: AppleTalk (specifically, LocalTalk or Phonenet cabling) should
be WAY faster (230Kpbs vs maybe 57.6 kbps). Plus, since you have 2000,
you can get an Ethernet card for running AppleTalk (and TCP/IP too if you
want) and have it be INCREDIBLY FASTER (10Mbps) over AppleTalk, while not
affecting your printer port at all in that case. Don't recall if your PB
has PCMCIA or built in Ethernet, though. If not, you may be out of luck
on the Ethernet front, although you could use an Ethernet to LocalTalk
adapter but it probably won't help - just stick with LocalTalk if you
can't get Ether on your PowerBook.
Did you turn off Appletalk? If not, it'll still snarf the priner port.
Of course, since Apple starting have a combo printer/modem port on
PowerBooks (argh) perhaps there is a problem. I haven't seen.
- Bill
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