> A few years ago I picked up a old Plus to convert into an aquarium (I know,
> I know; but it was a fun idea). I had never quite seem a Plus like this
> before. It had a Sticker to denote it was a plus. It did not have printing
> or a platic label. It was simply a sticker.
>
> Now, Plus was stolen (why people stole it was beyond me), but I am still
> curious of the history that Mac may have had.
>
> I'd love to hear of any thoughts or such. I still have the keyboard and
> mouse from it, but I trashed the dot-matrix years ago. It was also an apple
> printer, but I was never able to id it. Wasn't and LQ or a first gen
> imagewriter. Very wide but not descript. Thoughts on that?
It might have been an upgraded 512K Mac; I believe there was a Plus upgrade
for those. The printer might have been a Wide Carriage Imagewriter. There's
a story that goes with that item:
"...
As Cary and I walked past Steve's office, we heard him yelling at the
printer guys, reminding them that every Wide Carriage ImageWriter built with
the hard-to-get microcontroller would likely cost the company a Mac sale.
"If you build even one of those Wide ImageWriters?", and then he told them
about a certain part of their anatomy that would be "cut off" if that
happened. The printer guys looked like they would rather be anywhere else
than right where they were. Before too much longer, Apple did ship the Wide
Carriage ImageWriter, the microcontroller shortage cleared up, and I always
felt privileged to have experienced so much about the Mac division on my
first day....."
The whole story is at
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=First_Day_in_t
he_Mac_Group.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date
Seth Lewin
Received on Sat Apr 03 2004 - 08:04:21 BST