Re: IIGS and Laserwriter IISC

[apowers@lightlink.com (Adam Powers)]

> In article <35A21AD6.DA531663@vub.ac.be>,
> Ing. Jansen Robert <rjansen@vub.ac.be> wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect a LaserWriter IISC
> >(the one with the SCSI interfaces and NO PostScript) to a IIGS ?

You may be better off trying to find a used IINT motherboard instead -
maybe not the easiest thing to find in Europe, but it's worth a try.
Look for someone who has upgraded their IINT to a IINTX, IIf or IIg
motherboard.  The IISC was regarded as the low-end Laserwriter II.  

In article <VBso1.631$IA2.3268360@ptah.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan
Mates) wrote:

>    You'd really have to do a lot of work to get the Postscript driver
> to talk to a scsi device, as well as provide a SCSI driver to make
> things work. Good luck trying to get documentation on how to talk to
> that printer-- like the Apple II, I'd expect Apple to have forgotten
> that they ever made such a thing.

Apple's actually been pretty good at supporting legacy systems - 
not many other companies would bother to keep *free* versions of
an operating system like GS/OS on their ftp servers!  I recently
tried to get information for a 6 yr. old Sun monitor, but Sun did in fact
deny ever having made the product despite the fact that I had the part
number!  Turns out their tech support people (after forwarding me 
to other phone #s several times) were simply searching the same 
web pages that I had scoured already...  I'm testing the Microsoft
behemoth right now - I bought an unregistered copy of MS-DOS 6.0
at a garage sale and I am going to find out if they'll still honor
their five-year-old promise of providing 720k floppies for systems
without HD floppy drives...  I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if they do!
I should've asked them for 5.25" floppies :-)

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