Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:42

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On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:51:24 -0800, tracymnelson wrote:

> On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 4:02:56 PM UTC-5, Andreas Kohlbach
> wrote:
>> Laser printing was known. At least HP and Apple had each one printer to
>> sell by 1985. Thus IBM might have seen this coming around the same
>> time. I suppose daisywheel sales went down in 1986 already, as lasers
>> started flooding the market.
> 
> Fun fact: When Apple started selling the original Laserwriter, it was
> the most powerful computer in their catalog (it used a Motorola 68020
> IIRC).

I had one of those. It had NVRAM for some of the settings, but could only 
be written a certain number of times before it wore out. Some PostScript 
had to be written quite carefully to make sure it didn't write a value 
that was already there, and waste a 'life'!



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