{"id":646,"date":"2010-04-27T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2010-04-27T11:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:00:35","slug":"four-reasons-the-laserwriter-mattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/646\/four-reasons-the-laserwriter-mattered","title":{"rendered":"Four Reasons the LaserWriter Mattered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/150845\/2010\/04\/laserwriter.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macworld\/laserwriter_small.jpg\" alt=\"Five Reasons the Apple LaserWriter Mattered\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-five years ago this spring, Apple released the LaserWriter, its first laser printer. Few today remember that Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hefty printing machine had as much of an impact on the way the world uses computers as the Macintosh itself. In conjunction with Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous PC, the LaserWriter pushed the personal computer into the worlds of graphic design and publishing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So begins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/150845\/2010\/04\/laserwriter.html\" target=\"_blank\">my latest piece<\/a> over at Macworld.com, which examines four reasons why we should care about the historical legacy of Apple&#8217;s first laser printer.  It also touches on the early Apple-Adobe relationship, which began with the LaserWriter.  That relationship has come under closer scrutiny recently thanks to the nasty <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/04\/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone-iPad \/Adobe Flash feud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in more Apple printer information, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/616\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> I did for Macworld last year.  It lists &#8220;Apple&#8217;s Five Most Important Printers.&#8221;  Supposedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago this spring, Apple released the LaserWriter, its first laser printer. Few today remember that Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hefty printing machine had as much of an impact on the way the world uses computers as the Macintosh itself. In conjunction with Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous PC, the LaserWriter pushed the personal computer into the worlds of graphic [&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-646","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\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}