Re: Imagewriter won't stay SELECTed

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"Sean Fahey" (a2fan@hotmail.com) writes:
> "Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in message
> news:43626d55$0$28814$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com...
> 
>> It's a magnetic interlock...on the left side, IIRC, under a round
> protrusion
>> (of sorts).  If the magnet fell out of the lid and got lost someplace, the
>> printer won't work.  Holding a magnet of some sort (like a fridge magnet
> or
>> the magnet on the back of a speaker) over the reed switch should allow the
>> printer to go back online.
> 
> I suppose Apple engineers designed it that way because it was the most
> attractive solution at the time.
> 
> 
Wasn't the printer designed and built by a third party, with the key
difference being the firmware to make it an "Imagewriter"?

C. Itoh comes to mind, but it might have been someone else.

I'm sure I've seen reed switches used for the purpose in other printers,
so it was likely a common practice, though the specific reasons don't
seem clear.

  Michael