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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bp664
  3. From: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
  4. Subject: Re: Buffering in software
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug18.054517.7310@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
  6. Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: slc8.ins.cwru.edu
  8. Reply-To: bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas)
  9. Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
  10. References: <1992Aug17.194154.2819@uts.cc.wayne.edu>  
  11. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 05:45:17 GMT
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  14.  
  15. [...Sean Eller tired of waiting for computer back while Imagewriter prints]
  16.  
  17. >for it.  The Orange Micro ImageBuffer offered more features than did the one
  18. >offered from Apple.  including being expandable to 64k and, I believe,
  19. >128k (4 256k chips).  They occasionally turn up for sale at local computer
  20. >swap shows. Also, Quality Computers sells Q-Buffer, an internal 32k Imagewriter
  21. >printer buffer (about $60).
  22.  
  23. I'm still not sure if a small (32K) print buffer is big enough to hold
  24. enough information to free up the computer.  Maybe text, but not font
  25. based documents...
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  28. (__) Grover Thomas            InterNet: grover@emunix.emich.edu      (__)
  29. (__)                               or   bp664@Cleveland.Freenet.edu  (__)
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