PC printers for the Mac. (includes related articles on impact printing, tips for making GDT Softworks PowerPrint more useful)(Working Smart)

Macworld | June 1, 1995| | Copyright

Working Smart

The year: 1984. The computer: The 128K Mac. The problem: Apple's dot matrix ImageWriter was the only Mac-compatible printer, and the lack of so-called letter-quality output--remember that?--was feared to be slowing the Mac's acceptance in the business world. (Never mind that no business software was available yet for the Mac.) The first solution: Mac Daisywheel Connection, which enabled the Mac to connect to daisy wheel printers--remember them?--designed for PCs.

Thus began a series of attempts to coerce the Mac into talking with printers that ...

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