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Re: //c system

"Bill Garber" (willy46pa@comcast.net) writes:

> I believe the Imagewriter is parallel, while the
> Imagewriter II
> is serial. Just an FYI for clarification.
> 
No, since the Imagewriter was created for the Macintosh, and the Macintosh
has no parallel port, the two could not work together unless the
printers were serial interface.

Both Imagewriters have only serial interfaces.

That was the whole point.  Apart from the control codes for the printer,
a big reason Mac users were stuck with the Imagewriter (which is a good
printer) rather than something cheaper or already in place, was
that the average printer had a parallel port.  You needed a serial to
parallel converter to use a parallel printer with the Mac, and at
that point one might just go to an Imagewriter.

  Michael