Thank you for detailed info. I guess the card is pretty useless to me :-(
George ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "1st PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:34 PM Subject: Re: lasermax mx controller nubus card > >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 > ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
