From: GS#0@lafibm.lafayette.edu (GS#0)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: My hardware is harder and warer than yours. Nyah-nyah-nyah!
Date: 19 Dec 92 13:36:36 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

Warning: It's never too late. The humor-impaired should hit n (or
         whatever else that does it fer ya) now.

Have been following  (with amusement :) the old "My PC can whoop your
Mac / My 'doze wins over your Sys 7 / My chip's more hip than your chip
/ My 64-bit ship can out-mip you 32-bit dip / Your GUI is more ooey-
gooey than my messy GUI" ploy for more years than I care to remember.
The recent skirmishes were also quite entertaining, thank you very much,
but the sparc seems to be dying out as diehard bruce-bullish peecee
users continue to see red (& indigo), but are really at a complete loss
and don't know which aspect of the Mac to start bashing next.
(Now, now, no groans please; you were given fair warning.)  Well, the
situation has become so desperate that we are about to see wholesome
comedy about to degenerate into the rehashing of reeeal ol' sayings
from Indiana, such as:
"A second saved in an Excel sort is sorta' an excellent second savored."
and the ever popular:
"As my friend Bobby Knight once told me..." (oops, wrong newsgroup :)

But never fear! By the timely application of superduper-refined jet fuel
on the proverbial fire, we can double our pleasure / double our fun ;-)
Read on and enjoy, and keep the flame burning for a few more chuckles!

Cheers - Shekhar Govind                 govi@lafayette.edu

P.S. Since this is c.s.m.hardware, it is entirely apropriate to discuss
     how to hookup a Tektronix color printer to our favourite machines.

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Let loose on Usenet by our good friend anon.  Allegedly, it
is from the December 1991 issue of The Macintosh Gazette.
(Ne'er heard ov it myself - but what do I know; I'm only an
ignorant mac/sparc user who won't touch one of them clones
even when protected with latex gloves :)
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Here is an actual E-Mail message that was sent around
a network containing both Macs and PCs.  It describes
the steps needed to use a new Tektronix color pirnter
that has been added to the net.
Names have been withheld to protect the guilty.

From:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, Oct 23, 1991, 11:25AM
Subject: Phaser printer on line
To:    xxxxxxxxxxx

The Phaser II PX printer is now on line andis accessible from both the
Macs and the PCs.  The printer drivers are in Y:\ALDUS\DRIVERS\PHASER.
To use the printer do the following:

Mac System 7.0
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1) Select the Phaser printer in the Chooser DA and print.

Windows 3.0
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1)  Replace the Capture command for LPT3 in your starnet.bat
    file with the following:  Capture 1=3 q=phaser s=vcslib a nob nt
2)  reboot
3)  run startnet
4)  start windows
5)  double-click on the control panel icon
6)  double-click the printers icon in the control panel dialog box
7)  click the add printer button
8)  select the apple laserwriter IINT/NTX postscript printer
9)  double-click the install button
10) when the "use current or new driver" prompt comes up, click on
    current
11) click on the configure button
12) select lpt3: for the printer port
14) click the add printers button
15) type in the path: Y:\adlus\drivers\phaser\windows at the path prompt
16) select tektronix phaser II px printer
17) click on the add button to add the printer
18) click on the done button
19) click ok in the add printers dialog box
20) click ok in the configure dialog box
21) click active in the printers dialog box
22) click OK.

If you have any questions, just drop me a note or come by my office.

Thanks, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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