Printers catching up
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Apple Computers Inc's $1,299 Personal Laserwriter LS and $599 Stylewriter are two low-cost computer printers that work with Apple's low-end Macintosh computers. The Laserwriter LS is built around the Canon LBP-LX print engine, which is the one used in HP's Laserjet IIP, and can print four pages per minute. It comes with 512Kbytes of memory, which Apple maintains is sufficient, and a standard 50-page paper tray; a 250-page paper tray is optional. The Laserwriter LS is designed for individual use and cannot be shared by other computers on the network. The Stylewriter is an inkjet printer that is not much larger than a notebook computer. It weighs only 3.5 pounds but prints at the slow rate of a page every minute or two. Apple also introduced its Trutype font technology which is included in System 6.0.7. Truetype enables users to view and print high-quality type in various sizes from any Macintosh computer and Apple printer.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Macintosh introduces its first workstation
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Apple Computer Inc introduces the Macintosh IIfx, the company's first workstation. The Mac IIfx, which costs between $8,969 and $10,969, offers twice the performance of a Mac IIci, using a 40 MHz version of Motorola's 68030 microprocessor. Apple does not include a graphics card in the IIfx, leaving it to users to choose a board that suits their needs. For that purpose, Apple introduces three new graphics cards, one of which - the Apple Macintosh Display Card 8-24 GC, priced at $1,999 - is described here. This board, which plugs into a Mac II that has at least 2Mbytes of memory, speeds graphics programs five to 30 times, allowing an Apple Color High-Res RGB Monitor to display photo-quality images in color or in black and white. The key to this board is the Advanced Micro Devices Am29000 graphics processor, a reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) chip dedicated to graphics.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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Both ends of the Apple spectrum
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Apple introduces three new microcomputers at the Comdex 1991 trade show: the Macintosh Classic II, the Quadra 700 and the Quadra 900. The Mac Classic II uses the 16-MHz Motorola 68030 microprocessor and runs software twice as fast as the old Mac Classic. It uses the System 7 operating system and has a microphone to add voices or sounds to documents. An $1,899 version has 2-Mbytes memory and a 40-Mbyte hard disk, but for $2,399 it comes with twice the memory and hard disk capacity. The Quadra machines are tower-style and use a 25-MHz Motorola 68040 microprocessor. They run applications twice as fast as the Mac IIfx. The $5,699 Quadra 700 has 4-Mbytes system memory and expands to 20Mbytes. The $7,199 Quadra 900 is the power machine, capable of 64-Mbytes system memory and able to connect to four storage devices, including hard disk and CD-ROM drives. Both use Ethernet.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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