Re: //c system

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Scott Alfter" <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote in message 
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> In article <tvmdnREAQ49XOoTYnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>><bbaker4311@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> What is truly cool is this thing came with an imagewriter (original in a
>>> box that has maybe point of manufacture postal detail on it).  This
>>> imagewriter is much lighter than the ][. It looks like one of those Star
>>> printers that came with my first apple.
>>
>>I believe the Imagewriter is parallel, while the Imagewriter II is serial.
>>Just an FYI for clarification.
>
> The Imagewriter is a serial printer, with a standard DB-25 connector 
> instead
> of the 8-pin mini-DIN connector that Apple used on later equipment.
>
> It also weighs a ton, compared to most other dot-matrix printers.  Several
> of the internal components are metal castings, instead of sheet-metal
> stampings or plastic.  If the OP's printer really is an Imagewriter, it
> should weigh more than any Apple II.
>

IIRC, the Imagewrite II LQ was noticably lighter than previous Imagewriters.