ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu (Eric Cloninger) (11/11/87)
Reader,
This is my first posting to comp.sys.mac. Please forgive me if this is a
reposting of a discussion four months ago. I have only been reading
comp.sys.mac for two months. Some of the info in this article may be
erroneous or even completely false. It is correct to the best of my
knowledge.
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I worked for a medium sized (20 people) computer store this summer. Due to
the bad Oklahoma economy and other excuses, we were not able to evaluate many
of the new products this year as we could in previous years.
I am interested in a laser printer for personal use that came out this summer.
It is made by General Computer Corp (makers of Hyperdrive and several classic
video games). Since I am working on my M.S. and my roommate is working on his
Ph.D, we think we could (collectively) justify the cost of a $2600 (list price)
laser printer.
From the small article I read in one of our trade journals, the Personal Laser
Printer (PLP) uses Quickdraw rather than Postscript and has many (or most) of
the Laserwriter Plus fonts.
Two questions:
1) Is it worth a damn?
2) How much are they selling for across the country. I hope I can pick one up
for approx. $1800 - $1900.
A little background: I currently own a Mac SE with 20 mb hard disk running
System 4.1 and Finder 5.5. I have an Imagewriter II and an Apple 300/1200
baud modem.
Any information provided would be helpful. E-mail responses to me and I will
post a follow-up. Many thanks.
Eric Cloninger
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In article <2817@okstate.UUCP> ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu (Eric Cloninger) writes: >I am interested in a laser printer for personal use that came out this summer. >It is made by General Computer Corp (makers of Hyperdrive and several classic >video games). I think I know one of those games! It was called "Patcher", and the idea was to patch Apple System Software and eat up precious memory in a 512k Mac, always staying one step behind the latest Apple release... ( Just kidding... no flames from GCC lovers, please! ) -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." ...!seismo!cmcl2!esquire!sbb | - David Letterman