Re: ImageWriter II variants

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

"Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au> wrote:

>Mitchell Spector (a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca) wrote:
>
>>    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.
>
>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.

    No, that's not the case. If you install a LocalTalk board it will
*not* override the 24K built-in RAM buffer. You will have both
active at the same time. 

>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.

    Yes. There's a socket underneath the front control panel that
accepts either a 32K RAM card, LocalTalk card or a combined
RAM/LocalTalk board which Sequential Systems sold. When
installing one you have to flip a DIP switch or two so it knows 
it's present.

    The ImageWriter II/L will presumably ignore any extra RAM
it finds in this slot.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca