Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:5938 comp.sys.mac.misc:2651
Path: 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

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