20 May
1999
20 May
'99
9:29 a.m.
In a message dated 99-05-20 13:21:03 EDT, you write:
top-rear
Something to
check for on the Imagewriter II printers is the localtalk
option board. I just picked up 4 Imagewriter II's and 2 so far have the
boards, which triples the value of the printer.
How can you tell ? I have the 8-pin mini-plug and under a plate on
is
a F 10-pin socket of some kind.
Look for appletalk cards in them?
Bring small philips screwdriver.
Lift 2 top covers .... one a narrow back strip .... then the big one
with smoked glass (or plastic)
slide carriage all the way left and remove ribbon
note 2 screws left and right in lower corner of opening
back all way out and lift up front cover whis has wire attached
Look inside on right ... board should have (front to back) 1 1/2 inch
connector or card mounted on it
Thats it... card or no card .... pretty valuable
20 May
20 May
6:29 p.m.
On 20 May 99 at 14:29, SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 99-05-20 13:21:03 EDT, you write:
top-rear
Thanks for the walkthru. Except for removing the Roller Dial(Handle?)
it was spot on. Yes and there it lay; one Appletalk card with 4 large chips,
one of them a Zilog. The screws were quite loose when I went to undo them
and for a moment thought the original owner might have removed it for some
reason. Thank you, I'm quite pleased.
Now what can Appletalk do that's so special. I also have a Laserwriter ll NTX
that will likely become my main printer ,so I guess the IW will stay with the
llci which is a nice little machine and purportedly able to handle my Full Page
Radius display. A nice writers trio.
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Something
to check for on the Imagewriter II printers is the localtalk
option board. I just picked up 4 Imagewriter II's and 2 so far have the
boards, which triples the value of the printer.
How can you tell ? I have the 8-pin mini-plug and under a plate on is
a F 10-pin socket of some kind.
Look for appletalk cards in them?
Bring small philips screwdriver.
Lift 2 top covers .... one a narrow back strip .... then the big one
with smoked glass (or plastic)
slide carriage all the way left and remove ribbon
note 2 screws left and right in lower corner of opening
back all way out and lift up front cover whis has wire attached
Look inside on right ... board should have (front to back) 1 1/2 inch
connector or card mounted on it
Thats it... card or no card .... pretty valuable
10:40 p.m.
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Lawrence Walker wrote:
Now what can Appletalk do that's so special. I
also have a
Laserwriter ll NTX that will likely become my main printer ,so I guess
the IW will stay with the llci which is a nice little machine and
purportedly able to handle my Full Page Radius display. A nice writers
trio.
You can connect it to a Mac network, making it a network printer. So I
guess its valuable for people who still use Imagewriter's as network
printers in their Mac networks. For the other 99.999998% of the
population they are worthless junk.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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21 May
21 May
9:56 a.m.
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
You can connect it to a Mac network, making it a
network printer. So I
guess its valuable for people who still use Imagewriter's as network
printers in their Mac networks. For the other 99.999998% of the
population they are worthless junk.
There do exist adapters to connect them to a regular Ethernet or serial
port. They are likely to be found at any place that has a lot of macs.
They might still be available new, as a matter of fact. I know Dayna and
Asante made them, probably other companies as well.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
11 a.m.
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Or if you can find a IIf or IIg motherboard for that printer, it will
have ethertalk built in, as well as level 2 postscript.
-Lawrence LeMay
You can connect it to a Mac network, making it a
network printer. So I
guess its valuable for people who still use Imagewriter's as network
printers in their Mac networks. For the other 99.999998% of the
population they are worthless junk.
There do exist adapters to connect them to a regular Ethernet or serial
port. They are likely to be found at any place that has a lot of macs.
They might still be available new, as a matter of fact. I know Dayna and
Asante made them, probably other companies as well.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
2:29 p.m.
On Fri, 21 May
1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Or if you can find a IIf or IIg motherboard for that printer, it will
have ethertalk built in, as well as level 2 postscript. You can connect it to a Mac network, making it a
network printer. So I
guess its valuable for people who still use Imagewriter's as network
printers in their Mac networks. For the other 99.999998% of the
population they are worthless junk.
There do exist adapters to connect them to a regular Ethernet or serial
port. They are likely to be found at any place that has a lot of macs.
They might still be available new, as a matter of fact. I know Dayna and
Asante made them, probably other companies as well.
20 May
20 May
11:10 p.m.
Now what can Appletalk do that's so special. I
also have a Laserwriter ll NTX
that will likely become my main printer ,so I guess the IW will stay with the
llci which is a nice little machine and purportedly able to handle my Full
Page
Radius display. A nice writers trio.
Well it makes it a "network" printer that you don't have to tie to just one
system. If that is no advantage I would take it out and sell the option
card (printer turns back into a normal serial without it), last one I got
$40 for.
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