home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pageworks.com!world!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!jdsiegel
- From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: hp deskwriters
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:23:08 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <1k81ks$kea@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <43923@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <wingo-250193123239@wingosmac.apple.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
-
- In article <wingo-250193123239@wingosmac.apple.com>
- wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
-
- >In article <43923@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ee52fas@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Anand Rao)
- >wrote:
-
- ** the deskwriter for the mac is
- ** called simply 'deskwriter' while the deskwriter for the ibm is
- ** called the 'deskwriter 500/500c/550/550c'. have i been led astray
- ** on this????
-
- >Yes. Deskwriters of any sort are Macintosh peripherals. The corresponding
- >PC peripherals are called DeskJETS.
-
- FWIW, I've also heard the DeskWriter C referred to as the
- DeskWriter 500C. I'm not sure if that's official nomenclature or
- some salesperson messing up, but like I said, FWIW.
-
- Joel
-
- --
- Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
- "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
- affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery
-