Re: ImageWriter II variants

["Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>]

Mitchell,

thanks for the answer I wanted. I didn't want to put in my LocalTalk card in
this printer and lose the 24K RAM feature, as limited as it may be. If I did
lose the RAM feature I'd would have left my LocalTalk Option card in my
older model.
Not ever having seen a 32K Option board (yet), I assume it fits into the
same connector as the LocalTalk Option board, therefore explaining why you
can't fit both at the same time.

Mark

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In article <3b59dbc0.47932230@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:


> tturner@ecn.ab.ca () wrote:
>
>>Mitchell Spector (a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca) wrote:
>>: "Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au> wrote:
>>: >BTW I ran a self test and noticed it has 24K RAM, whereas my others
have 0K.
>>
>>:     What you have there is an ImageWriter II/L. Released in 1989, its
>>: main difference is the inclusion of a 24K RAM buffer (built-in) and a
>>: smaller powersupply that draws less current. You could still add a
>>: LocalTalk option board but from what I recall, it did _not_ support
>>: memory expansion any longer.
>><snip>
>>
>>--> Pardon my confusion - do you mean that as of the above model
>>    version, that all future IW II's no longer supported memory-
>>    expansion above 24K, but that previous model versions, with
>>    0K, _did_ support memory-expansion (and, by implication, to
>>    more than 24K)?  Or do you mean something else?  Sorry to
>>    seem so dense - it just isn't clear to moi.  Thanks . . . 
>
>    The ImageWriter II/L cannot add more memory, it's stuck with the
>built-in 24K and no more. You can install an internal memory card but
>as far as I know, it'll just ignore it and you'll still have only 24K.
>
>    The older models came with only 2K built-in but can accept more 
>memory. Apple sold a 32K RAM option card you could plug into the
>older printer, so did Sequential Systems with their Q-Buff card. No
>big loss (24K vs 32K), except when you consider the MegaBuff
>which added a full 1 Megabyte to the printer which the II/L, again,
>would ignore.
>
>ps - A minor correction. The II/L came out in early 1990 actually.
>
>Mitchell Spector
>a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca
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