{"id":616,"date":"2009-12-13T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-12-14T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T14:59:06","slug":"apples-five-most-important-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/616\/apples-five-most-important-printers","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Five Most Important Printers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/144880\/five_important_printers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macworld\/laserwriter_small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple's Five Most Important Printers\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Younger computer fans may not know this, but for almost twenty years (1980-1999), Apple, Inc. sold Apple-brand printers for use with its computers &#8212; a fact that&#8217;s easy for us to forget today, ten years since Apple shipped its last printer.<\/p>\n<p>That being so, Macworld recently asked me to write an article about Apple&#8217;s long history in the printer business.  I was happy to take the assignment, of course, and a few days ago, Macworld published the result, titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/144880\/five_important_printers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple&#8217;s Five Most Important Printers<\/a>.&#8221;  I structured the article along the same lines as the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/592\" target=\"_blank\">Mac laptops piece<\/a> I did back in September.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of writing the article, I learned more than I thought I&#8217;d ever know about Apple printers, and I enjoyed the research process quite a bit.  Of particular interest was Apple&#8217;s original LaserWriter (1985, seen above), a famous peripheral that holds a monumentally important place in computer history.<\/p>\n<p>I also created a companion slideshow of various Apple printers for Macworld, which you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/144736\/2009\/12\/appleprinters.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younger computer fans may not know this, but for almost twenty years (1980-1999), Apple, Inc. sold Apple-brand printers for use with its computers &#8212; a fact that&#8217;s easy for us to forget today, ten years since Apple shipped its last printer. That being so, Macworld recently asked me to write an article about Apple&#8217;s long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}