11 Mar
2002
11 Mar
'02
7 a.m.
Interesting question Chris.... Its been a while since I've been under the
hood of either, so some of the basic questions:
Will the HPLJ2 board fit into the slot underneath the LW2NT?
Does it have the same connector?
The engines are the same, its just the connections and physical mounting
guides & size for the controller that matters... I took the Apple LW2NT
certification back in 90 and while a great course, they never went so
indepth as to list out the actual pinouts of the connectors so you have to
hope that someone out there may have the technical schematics of the LW2NT
and somewhere else you can locate the same on the LJ2.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech(a)mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: HP LJ 2 mobo -> Apple LW 2 NT
does anyone know if it is safe to yank the logic board
from an HP
LaserJet II and stick it into an Apple Laserwriter II NT. I know they are
the same printer engine, with just minorly different features (Apple has
no font slots for instance).
I have a pseduo broken HP and a fully working Apple, but I want the
parallel interface. So rather than buying a kit to fix the paper pickup
problem the HP has, I was thinking of just swapping logic boards.
Is this possible? or will I blow something? (I'd rather not just blindly
experiment, since I am running short of working laser printers, and can't
afford to trash these)
-chris
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