From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Jasen Betts wrote:

> HMM, that may be the difference between "laser writer" and
"personal laser
> writer".

  Perhaps, it was a while back, and I can't remember what was on the label.  I 
had since removed it, and replaced the front panel (which used to be blank) to 
the one with the LCD display and buttons.

>  JT> The one that I had seen was definatly NOT postscript.  There was
>  JT> barely a handlful of bits on the card.  Appeared to be only
>  JT> interface logic.
> 
> ok... the laser writer main board had a 68040 processor (possibly 68030),
> (and ROM, RAM, etc..) on it. and was about the size of an A4 page... sounds
> like the personal laser writer is totally different. At the time it was more
> powerful than the Apple desktops  :)

  The vast majority of the main boards I remembered, used the 68000 processor. 
I hadn't seen any that used any other processor, or any other flavour of the 
68K.  But that would more likely be an indication of the class of printers I 
was working on.

>  JT> Postscript capable motherboards are (were) quite expensive.  No
>  JT> idea how much Apple had the pleasure of charing for them, but
>  JT> can't see them charging too much more otherwise I wouldn't expect
>  JT> too much market penetration.
> 
> About $600 NZ I think (this was over 10 years ago)

  If my memory is still intact, that sounds about right for a range of main 
board options.  Of course that was out of the question for repair options in 
those days...

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