In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960227084236.12975A-100000@steele>,
Art Bahrs  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, John Pearce wrote:
>
>> As a temporary kludge, I'm considering a serial to parallel converter to
>> connect the 5si to a DTC port.  I believe the 5si does not support 3000
>> status checking so I'll need to configure the serial port accordingly.
>
>   um... not sure about the 5si but my 3si's (2 of 'em) had serial ports
>in them when we got them.  So, I just hooked them up and picked a
>standard printer type in NMMGR.  They work great :)
>
 
 Since the 4si and the 5si were designed as networked departmental
printers they didn't add a serial port to them. Why? Well depending on
your network type, you'll have to have a different I/O card So there are
two MIO slots, no serial port, and a centronics port on the 4 and 5 si's.