On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:44:27 -0700 Al Kossow via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/12/21 7:25 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > One step behind > > the wrecking ball or the recycling dumpster as the case may be. > > Yup. I started saving Laserwriter bits when their was originally > some interest in emulation a few years ago. > > HP used Canon formatters on the LW and LWII, then did their own on > the LW III with more and more HP ASICs on them. They are all 68000 > based. Looks like they switched to i960s or 29000's up through the VI. > Yeah, the 4MV uses an i960. FWIW wrt to the earlier models, The Printer Works based in Hayward CA sold HP printer parts, including I/II/III items, and had a nice online catalog with lots of diagrams, photos, etc. Last visible in Stockton ca. 2018. Waybacking printerworks.com can be useful: https://web.archive.org/web/20041114025534/http://www.printerworks.com/Catalogs/BX-Catalog/931BX_C3143-67901CloseUp.html Looks like they may be defunct now, but maybe carrying on under another name/new management? Or if not, someone else, hopefully, may have bought the inventory. Still a number of places selling parts for these, anyway.
