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I was fortunate enough to buy a 1990s laser printer.

Back then companies were still short sighted enough¹ to build them to last.

It's an Apple Laserwiter 12/640PS.

It's still chugging along today, with 64Mb of memory no less!

[1]: Recurring revenue wise that is.



I’m tempted to track down an old LaserWriter myself, those things don’t quit. Are you able to find toner for yours reliably?


They're the same guts as HP printers and it'd be easier to interface to one of those with a Jetdirect Ethernet card. Anything built before Fiorina tanked the company will be reliable. The later models will also have faster warm up times for the fuser.


So far so good on the Toner. I _think_ I heard that the guts were the same as an IBM printer, but I might be wrong on that.


I think it used a Canon print engine.




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