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Article #2946Obscure LaserWriter features
From: Alex Pournelle
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 09:14
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 09:14
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woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes: >If you hook up to the 25 pin serial port in interactive terminal mode, AND >you jumper pin 4 to pin pin 22, and power the laser up, you will come >up in the RED STONE monitor. Uuuuh--is this the reason there's an ADB connector on all LaserWriter II series machines? So you can hook a video-out adapter to the laser feed and a keyboard to the ADB port and debug the printer? That's half a :-), by the way. I'm still clueless why there IS an ADB port on the furshlugginer printer. Alex -- Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others ...elroy!grian!alex; BIX: alex; voice: (818) 791-7979 fax: (818) 794-2297 bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 24/12/3
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!grian!alex From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Obscure LaserWriter features Message-ID: <1990Aug29.091431.12213@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> Date: 29 Aug 90 09:14:31 GMT References: <428@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <1510@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Organization: Workman & Associates Lines: 19