[vcf-midatlantic] NeXT printer emulator/bridge

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Jun 18 15:18:52 EDT 2018


On 06/18/2018 02:56 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> I do have one more question.  I was only parroting the lore I heard out
> there and mistakenly repeated it -  "The Next Printer is just a Laser Jet
> II with a Next Badge"....where did that come from then?  I am well aware
> that there are many incorrect anecdotes in our hobby.  Is this just one of
> them?  Before you know it they'll be saying the Apple II was not the first
> computer ever.

  It came from an idiot who doesn't know what a laser printer "engine"
is, made an assumption likely based on superficial mechanical
similarity, made another assumption about who actually made the HP
LaserJet printer mechanism, and made proclamations based on those
assumptions.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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