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Those old LaserJets are absolutely bulletproof. My parents are still using the one we bought with our very first 486 clone in the mid 90s. I had to mod it a lit
by thrower123 7y ago
Those old LaserJets are absolutely bulletproof. My parents are still using the one we bought with our very first 486 clone in the mid 90s. I had to mod it a little to swap the serial port for USB a decade or more ago, but it is still cranking along.
- kaitai 7y agoYep, I'm still using an old HP LaserJet too. Got it from a university discard, I believe, and it's over 14 years old and still cranking. Love it.
- jacquesm 7y ago> serial Laser printers with a serial port? Maybe Centronics?
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- NikkiA 7y agoNo, they did used to have serial ports, especially if PS printers (since you could then use the postscript interpreter interactively).
- thrower123 7y agoWhoops, parallel port not serial. Looking at pictures, this must have been a 4L.
- neilv 7y agoI usually used Ethernet-connected ones, but I'd think RS232 serial at a doable bit rate was viable for most purposes. Both HP-PCL and PostScript (I wrote code to generate both) can be sufficiently compact. (And you had the trusty built-in fonts, plus sometimes additional fonts in cartridges/cards, so fonts didn't necessarily have to be sent with the print job.) What could be a problem for connection via RS232 is large images, or an unfortunate setup that rasterizes the whole page off-printer at high dots-per-inch.
- mrpippy 7y ago> Laser printers with a serial port? Maybe Centronics? Probably not what OP means, but Mac printers all connected over serial