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> With my earliest computers, I kept buying laser printers with more RAM than the computer attached to them (I did subsequently upgrade the computers). I alway
by tablespoon 6y ago
> With my earliest computers, I kept buying laser printers with more RAM than the computer attached to them (I did subsequently upgrade the computers).
I always though it was funny that the original Apple LaserWriters had more RAM and a faster processor than the computers they were attached to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter
- Someone 6y ago“I always though it was funny that the original Apple LaserWriters had […] a faster processor than the computers they were attached to” So did the Commodore 64. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1571 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1571 had a 2MHz 6502, the Commodore 64 a 1MHz 6510. It was sometimes used to speed up programs (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4692/obscure-uses-of-the-commodore-8050-1541-disk-drive https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4692/obsc...)