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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Obscure LaserWriter features
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.082117.6829@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 31 Aug 90 08:21:17 GMT
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fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming) writes:

>Alex,

>The canonical explanation for the ADB ports on LaserWriters is to control
>the plethora of third-party envelope feeders, bin feeders, continuous-feed
>rollers, and other aftermarket goodies that are crowding dealer shelves.

>What?  Not at -your- dealer?  Well, you're obviously not patronizing
>dnalretupmoC.  Right this way, through the Looking Glass...

Thanks to the six (including Stephen) people who reported this answer to
a really obscure one!  And they say USENET isn't valuable....

One person mentioned he'd seen this info on a brochure for a
sheet-feeder, so p'haps one exists.  And copy-controls, LCD displays,
bin selectors, etc--at least, those were suggestions.

Another mentioned that some used ADB to communicate directly with the
printer; is this actually faster than AppleTalk?

I'm still wondering why you can't use SCSI to talk to your LW IINTX; I'm
also wondering why your font cache can't live on your computer's hard
disk.  (Doubtless several people will call me nieve, which is one reason
that USENET is called USELESSNET by its detractors.)


>|  Stephen Fleming         |   In ten years, computers will just be    |
>|  fleming@cup.portal.com  |   bumps in cables.       --Gordon Bell    |

								In ten years, lawyers will just be
								bumps in roads.		   --Shakespeare

								In ten years, computers will say,
								"Cables?  Where we're going, we don't
								need cables."		   --Nobody, yet

			Alex
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