Today I went to a quarterly Apple Trade fair in Holland wanting to buy a IIf or IIg I/O board for my Laserwriter II (until today a IINT). Of course I also picked up a plus (2.5 mb, nothing special, will be stored for it's parts) and looked around for other goodies (didn't find anything really interesting). After some looking around I found a salesman with a load of Laserwriter II's. I asked for either a IIf or a IIg (preferably). He didn' find a IIg, but he had one IIf. I bought it, pulled a brought along screwdriver out of my bag and took the I/O board out (I left the rest of the printer behind because I didn't feel like carrying a Laserwriter II all around and into the train). After I got home I put the IIf board in my Laserwriter II and started the printer. A startup page came rolling out: it said Laserwriter IIg (not the name, but the type). Same thing happened when I checked the thing out with the Apple printer Utility: it said Laserwriter IIg. I guess it is an upgraded printer? Ha, finally I bought a device that someone else upgraded before me. Always been envying people telling about mysterious upgrade cards inside their recenly acquired purchases. The reason I wanted a IIf or IIg very badly cam from not getting OS X printing on a IINT. I read about someone being able to do just that on a IIg, so I figured it had to do something with the IINT only talking Postscript level I and the IIf and IIg talking Postscript level II. I discovered that contrary to the Laserwriter IINT the IIg will print from both my system 6 plus and my OS X iMac SE. Yet another vintage apple device that will be usefull for a very long time to come. The IIg is a lot faster than the IINT too and it has ethernet! Next on the got-to-have-list: a router, so I can finally get my iMac (its ethernet port is now being occupied by the ethernet cable from the Cable company that provides my Internet connection) on my personal LAN, so it can always talk to my vintage server, Plus and LaserWriter IIg while still being connected to the Internet. Marten -- -------------------------------------------------------- Check out the System 6 Heaven: http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html Subscribe to the LEM system6 list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------- -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.binhost.com/> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
