Michael Eversion wrote on 08/19/2003 03:14:47 PM: > Golly, I was able to distinguish Latin and Georgian and Cyrillic on a > Mac SE 30 in 1985. Or was it 1987.(Long before Worldscript I admit.) > And years before that there was the Osborne with its dot-matrix > miracles.
IIRC, the Mac SE did not exist in 1985; I was using a relatively new Fat Mac in the summer of that year. BTW, the Osborne didn't particularly have dot-matrix miracles. That was the domain of printers like the Toshiba P321 and various Epson LQ models, and such printers could be connected to CP/M machines like the Osbornes and Kaypros, DOS machines like the IBM PC and Sharp PC 5000, and the Macs. But in 1985 I think the only dot matrix printers were the 9-pin variety, which weren't all that conducive to readable Latin with diacritics, let alone Chinese or Arabic typesetting. The P321 was one of the first 24-pin models, and I think it came out in 1987 or maybe late 1986. Peter Constable
