7 Nov
2006
7 Nov
'06
11:58 a.m.
On 6/11/06 01:25, "Ray Arachelian" <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
They are all versions of the C. Itoh 8510. I'm
not familiar with the
DEC LA50, but it's very likely that, it too, is a C. Itoh.
It's identical to the ADMP only in DEC colours :) I don't have one and a
swift google image search turns up nothing, but just imagine a cream version
of the ADMP with a special DEC ROM and you're there. A note on the
Old-Computers.com site says the LA50 was made by NEC however, perhaps the
NEC one was C.Itoh too?
QuickDraw) do support color, although its display is 1
bit black and white,
so, if you print a graphic that has color on this printer, you'll get color.
I believe these were 16 colors, so 4 bit.
I've got a picture of that one somewhere but finding it quickly amongst all
my pictures might be difficult!
to the advertisements. I can imagine that it must
have used a single
period character to poke dots, so it must have been super slow. I
couldn't find any real docs for it however.
Time to dig my CDs out I think.....
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