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From: gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Mondo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.192355.7500@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:23:55 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.031031.24801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Miami - Info Resources
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In article <1990Dec10.031031.24801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
> 
> My suggestion, for use on the Mac Classic at least (since this is supposed to 
> be the affordable Mac...), make a 25 pin centronics parrallel port.
> Include in the new 512K roms the code to translate quickdraw to bit-images,
> and include on disk a bunch of printer description files so that output
> could be custimized to your printer.  Notice that this would allow both
> text and graphics output by using your printer's graphics modes. 

Yeah, it seems silly that while Apple wants to join the rest of the
world with all their ways of interconnection that they refuse to add
something as basic as a RS-232C interface.

I can see what Apple's reasoning would be:

  in public: "RS-232C would not deliver the type of performance our
              users expect from the Mac."

  in private: "By using proprietary techonology, you either buy our
               stuff or suffer."

And I mean that while they helped establish SCSI as a stnadard, they shouldn't
ignore others so entrenched as RS-232C.


> 
> I'd like to hear replies to this.
> 					Todd Walk
> 					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
> 
> 					walk@mrcne

There you go.

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