Re: old-school Apple LaserWriter Plus question

[who@where.what (Bart)]

Just as an example:
 I have a Apple Laserwriter IISC/G    I say that in that it was a SC (SCSI 
only) Laserprinter, but I got a G board and installed that on it making it a 
Ethertalk/ Localtalk Appletalk ONLY Ethernet, no TCP support, printer(and if 
somebody out there knows how to get a IIg to use a TCP/IP id I am VERY 
interested!).
Also I added an external 160gb SCSI drive and loaded it with fonts.  This is a 
cool printer for use in my multi-platform enviornment in that I can plug the 
localtalk port into a GS and the Ethertalk port into the ethernet hub and 
thereby talk to it from  both sides and print. It also supports the IWII 
emulation that the GS can produce. Getting it to talk to the PC side required 
installing Appletalk.  COPSTALK on a 98SE and Win 3.11 box,  PC MacLAN on the 
XP side.  Win 2000server has appletalk native. Oh and OS X 10.2.4   still has 
support built in for this antique.
My Toner ran out DRAT!  I looked high low and sideways and no luck... Then I 
went to Office Depot and looked through a very old printer toner guide card in 
the back that was hanging from a chain.  I think the guys had forgot it was 
there.  It refered to the fact that my printer used the same cart. as a HP 
Laserjet IId.  With that in mind I walked up 2 rows and found a Remanufactured 
IId toner that was 60 bucks,  (note, my printer cost me $5, the board I picked 
up for $10, both surplus, so the toner now cost considerably more then the 
printer it is in).  It WORKS!  hopefully this toner will last as long (3 
years, and it was used when I got it) as the one it replaced.
-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck