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From: mugc@utecfb.Toronto.Edu (ModemUserGroupChairman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser printer
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Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 19:12:48 EST
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	Regarding the RAM-less, driver-less laser printer:

	I think a 520ST minus the graphics, sound, ACIAs and
disk-controller chips could serve as a nice and cheap (for Atari)
controller for the printer. This would save Atari the need to design a
controller for the printer.  This "520ST" RAM could be increased by
piggybacking a small ram-board to the main board (no space problems
here), and a 32081 FPU could be attached to the cart-port.

	Software could be downloadable to this beast so you would not
be tied up to one formatting program. Fonts could be similarly
downloaded (some could be in rom), and finally, if you had nothing
better to do, you could compute the nth decimal place of PI on the
controller :-)

	I wonder if this would be economically feasible for Atari.

--
			Anees Munshi @ University of Toronto
			Engineering Comp. Facility
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			Reality is so much better!