color laser with old cubes?

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2 total messages Started by Vincent Fox Mon, 06 Apr 1992 21:06

#683

Author: Vincent Fox
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 21:06

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We have about 9 old-style '030 cubes with 380 meg HD's and an MO disk each.

I am very interested in the new color PostScript printer, but a couple of
obvious questions arise. I have been told that NeXTStep 3.0 extended will
be required to use the new printer. Will my old cubes:

1) Be able to hold all of 3.0 extended and still have some room left
   over for a fair amount of swap?
2) Be connectable to the new CD-ROM drive for purpose of loading 3.0 ext?
3) Print color transparencies of reasonable quality?

I am assuming of course that someone out there in net.land has managed to
snag one of these way ahead of the rest of us.

Thanks.
-- 
"Tech students have fun? Half the students here wouldn't take a course in fun
 even if it was required. They'd find some way to weasel out of it."    -me

Re: color laser with old cubes?

#793

Author: Todd M. Swan
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 15:47

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In article <53701@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox)  
writes:
> We have about 9 old-style '030 cubes with 380 meg HD's and an MO disk each.
> 
> I am very interested in the new color PostScript printer, but a couple of
> obvious questions arise. I have been told that NeXTStep 3.0 extended will
> be required to use the new printer. Will my old cubes:
> 
> 1) Be able to hold all of 3.0 extended and still have some room left
>    over for a fair amount of swap?
> 2) Be connectable to the new CD-ROM drive for purpose of loading 3.0 ext?
> 3) Print color transparencies of reasonable quality?
> 
> I am assuming of course that someone out there in net.land has managed to
> snag one of these way ahead of the rest of us.

Yes on all counts.  But the new NeXT color printer isn't a laser printer nor is  
it Postscript.  It's a bubble-jet printer and the Postscript is built into the  
NeXT itself.   The 400dpi isn't a Postscript printer either.  All the printer  
process is bitmaps.
--
!  "Finally, some good  ! Todd M. Swan (ADP-2 - MS P910)!
!  software for a PC."  ! tms@lanl.gov  (NeXTMail)      !
!  -- Steve Jobs on     ! Los Alamos National Laboratory!
!     NeXTstep '486     ! Los Alamos, NM  87545         !

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