Re: ImageWriter II product number question

["Name" <nospam@mchsi.com>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Name" <nospam@mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know the product numbers for the beige, white and platinum
> >IMII's?  Mine are so dingy that it is hard to tell one from another.
>
>     There were three versions of the ImageWriter II, though the easiest
way
> to tell them apart is by visual inspection rather than model numbers:
>
> -The original (circa 1985) is snow-white in color matching the Apple IIc,
> and has a bare cover--nothing but an Apple logo at the corner.
>
> -The platinum (circa 1986) is light-grey in color matching the Apple IIgs,
> and has the lettering "ImageWriter II" printed on the cover.
>
> -The ImageWriter II/L (circa 1989) has a power-icon symbol next to the
> On/Off switch (circle with "I" in the center). The AC and mini-DIN8
> connectors plugged into the back left and right sides rather than the legs
> of the printer. It is also noticeably lighter in weight and if you run the
> self-test, it'll report it has a 24K RAM buffer built-in.
>
> There was never a beige model, you're thinking of the ImageWriter 1
> (which only came in that one color; no white or grey versions exist).
> In summary you just need to have a quick look at the front panel:
> absence or presence of the model name?  Power icon symbol?
>
>
> Mitchell Spector

Thanks for the info.  Some of mine are so dingy and sunfaded that they look
to have been beige, but I guess not.

Thanks.