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Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:46:02 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Token Ring

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Steve Schiffman wrote:

> I am familiar with Token Ring and Token Ring JetDirect cards.
>
> Token Ring is a wiring topology, just as ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay,
> ISDN are wiring topologies.

. . .

> Routers can connect together Token Ring and ethernet networks.
>
> Windows and OS/2 both will work with/on Token Ring.

Thanks, as always, for your comprehensive reply.

> If you do not have a Token Ring network, you can not use the Token Ring
> interface that came with your printer. For $300 you can get an ethernet
> MIO adapter for the printer. I am sure that you could find used MIO
> adapters for less if you want to use the in the printer network
> capability. Otherwise you are back to using a parallel printer cable to
> a PC or to a parallel attachment external network print server.

For 3 Bills, fahgeddaboutit, as they say in Joisey ! If I could find one of these
adaptors used, very cheap (would still need a make & model to look for),
maybe. Otherwise, if I decide to pursue this, I think I'd just go for some
latter day model that will fit into the LJ-4 network card slot, that uses a simple,
straightforward ethernet connection -- if there is such a beast.

Jordan

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