Re: Question on Imagewriter production

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (vax2.concordia.ca)]

In article "Dr. Cathy Flick" <cathyf@igc.apc.org> writes...
> 
>Can anyone tell me when Apple stopped making its line of dot 
>matrix printers--in particular, the Imagewriters I and II.  I own 
>one of each and am curious to know the years they were both in 
>production.

	Actually the ImageWriter II is still in production, or
at least was the last time I checked Apple's price list. It is
the only dot matrix printer Apple still sells. To answer your
question about production runs (excluding of course thermal,
daisy-wheel, inkjet and lasers by Apple):

	- Apple DMP (October 1982 - late 1983)
	
      * - Apple ImageWriter I (December 1983 - to December 1985)

      *	- Apple ImageWriter II (September 1985 - to present)

	- Apple ImageWriter LQ (early 1988 - to ?)

* Notes: The ImageWriter I also came in a wide carriage version.
         There were a few revisions to the ImageWriter II over
         the years, the original snow-white model, followed by
         the platinum model and then the "II/L" (as it was known
         internally) which had a built-in buffer and much lighter
         powersupply.

         The LQ was basically a 27-pin version of the IWII, though
         it was short lived mainly due to cost ($1300) and size (twice        
         as large as IWII and weighed over 38 pounds). I don't know
         the exact date it was introduced and discontinued, sorry.

>--B.J. Major
>email:  cathyf@igc.apc.org

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca