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From: ye@henri.ucsb.edu (Hong Ye)
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Subject: NeXT Floppy Drive and Printer
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Date: 5 Jan 91 22:19:02 GMT
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Hi Everybody!

I am still waiting PATIENTLY for my NeXTStation to arrive while you guys
are having all the fun. Did anyone receive any 340MB NeXT? I wonder what
kind of algorithm is used to allocate those precious puppies.  It's not
likely to be Minimum Average Waiting Time, I guess.

Anyway, here is a few questions. NeXT says the internal floppy drive on
the NeXTStation reads/writes DOS-formatted 1.44MB diskettes. What about
Mac-formatted 1.44MB diskettes? Maybe not, huh? (Guess Steve still can
get over it when it comes to Apple. No flame, please.) If not, is that
a hardware problem(the drive itself just cannot take Mac floppies) or
is that a software problem (the drive can read/write Mac floppies, but
there is no software that handles Mac file system). If the latter is
the case, any reasonable chance that somebody is going to come up with
the software?

Any way to get a laser printer for NeXT with around $500? I understand
that all the rasterization is done on the NeXT itself. So a raster printer
with some kind interface(serial, SCSI, etc.) is all that is necessary.
There isn't any reason why we should pay extra for another PostScript
interpreter in the printer; or for that matter, pay extra for --
PCL whatever (Yuk!:-)  OkiLaser 400 was advertised for $600 here. I
heard that the print engine actually uses LED instead laser. It's
about 4 ppm.  Does anybody know more about this printer?

Please e-mail me the response. If there is enough of them I will post
a summary.

Thank you,

David