>I just picked up lasermax mx controller nubus card for 49c. >Any ideas what it does ? >I assume it is for printers.
Remember Tall Trees Systems? Tall Trees made a card which was, essentially, a memory-mapped card and allowed Ventura Publisher to write its page information into the "frame buffer" provided by the Tall Trees card. The Tall Trees card interfaced with a video-only version of the then ubiquitous Canon CX marking engine (LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, LaserWriter, LaserWriter Plus, et. al.). If your printer wasn't a video-only Canon CX, then Tall Trees even provided an adapter which made any non-video CX model into a combined non-video/video model. Instructions were provided for converting a LaserJet, but not a LaserWriter. The difference amounted to a custom-made, longer video cable. My LaserWriter Plus still has such a card and cable. Now, this was in support of Ventura Publisher, in its earlier DOS incarnation. Windows changed that a little. The Tall Trees product was still supported in Windows 2, but it disappeared in Windows 3. I believe Micro$oft wrote the Tall Trees driver. Where are we going? Well, the LaserMax was a PC/Macintosh version of the Tall Trees product concept, except that it was a little better (and longer) supported. The Tall Trees product was ISA Bus only. The LaserMax product included both ISA Bus and NuBus cards, and drivers to support these. This product, as with the Tall Trees product, worked only with a video-mode printer, and only with its proprietary driver, and then only on those OSes which support that driver. Which was DOS and Windows 2 for Tall Trees, and perhaps very early Windows 3 (ISA Bus) and MacOS 6 (NuBus) for LaserMax. -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
