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Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:58:42 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Cross-connecting several printers and computers

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Ray Davison wrote:
>
> Peter, you are paying too much.

I didn't buy one. :)

> I did not pay that much for a Linksys
> four-to-one bidirectional that will connect four
> computers to one printer, or as I am using it,
> connect one computer to four printers.

Ray, that's good to know, thanks. My problem is backwards; I have six
printers and I only print from one computer. (I need a cheap printer
server!)

> Electronic two computer to one printer boxes start at about ten bucks.

Hmm. "Electronic" meaning they have power, or just that they have the
connectors? I don't know if these things need diode steering on any of
the lines -- maybe 1N914A's?

- Peter

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