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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.025139.14108@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 02:51:39 GMT
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In article <7774@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500erik@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams) writes:
>In article <1990Dec10.031031.24801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
>
>As for putting a 25 pin centronics port on a Mac, I believe Apple
>already tried that on a machine.  It was called a Lisa.

So what's wrong with the Lisa?  BTW, the Lisa did not have a parallel port
standard-- it had a DB25 RS232 and a DB25 RS422 port-- with full handshaking
available, no less.  There were two and three port parallel cards.

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