6 Nov
2012
6 Nov
'12
2:56 p.m.
On 11/06/2012 05:11 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
He came up with a Canon CX engine rasterizer add-on
for his
RAM cards, called JLASER. At that time Tthe HP LaserJet-
(HP preferred to call them "LaserJet CLASSIC", rather than
"MINUS"),and LaserJet+ were essentially text only, with 256K of RAM.
Then he added [Canon IX?] scanner support with JLASER+
I've used the JLASER card. It was really quite nice. QMS made a
similar device, an ISA board which turned LaserJets into PostScript
printers, using the direct video interface slot.
He came up with a way to use lots of RAM.
Could a similar system be hacked together for CP/M?
I don't see why not. I wouldn't want to try to write a PostScript
interpreter on an 8-bitter, though. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA