NEXT Color Printer find

From: Robert Schaefer <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org>
Date: Sun Dec 30 12:15:26 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pechter" <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1458.monmouth.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: NEXT Color Printer find


> > My NeXT Color Printer, a model N2004 has both a SCSI in and out as well
> > as a Centronics style parallel port. It S/N is in the 2600 range (I'm
> > too busy to look right now).
>
>
> Was that SCSI to add a font disk to the printer or to actually talk to
> the printer....?
>
> I assume the former...=

I would imagine it was to talk to the printer. IIRC early Macs used SCSI
printers, too. Pretty neat. I wonder how hard a SCSI <-> parallel
interface would be to build.

>
> Bill

Bob
Received on Sun Dec 30 2001 - 12:15:26 GMT

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