On 1/22/18 10:08 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> BTW I had at home a LBP1 ? that came from the R&D Labs. Quite the beast it > used a toner that was suspended in a liquid. Not that anyone seems to collect printers, but the LBP1 and the Canon engine were some of the first 'inexpensive mass-produced' laser printers. I don't know of any that still survive. Before that, if you were lucky enough to be at Stanford, MIT, or CMU, you could use the Dover and Altos that were part of Xerox's University Grant Program. Copies of well-known papers from the early 80s are very distinctive because they were printed on them. Eventually, the Dover was networked to other computers. Stanford had a rather big 3mbit research Ethernet made with SUN board gateways. Not that any of this has much to do with Sun-3, other that it was possible to plug a SUN 3mbit ethernet board into one with a Multibus adapter. I had packets coming out of a Sun-3 a VERY long time ago and still have a bunch of the 3mbit Multibus boards.
