This takes me back to when I was in high school. I was the president of the Rotary Interact Club (a community service club) and I would print out fliers on a printer like this onto spirit master units and then run them off on a ditto machine. It was such an overlapping of old and new technology at that time.
Boy does this bring me back! I had this for my Commodore 64! I especially liked the kaleidoscope. And those fonts! RSVP, ALEXIS, NEWS! Unfortunately, we just had a B&W printer. Still, I thought this was a really cool program!
Unfortunately, it worked a lot like coloring markers. When mixing colors (i.e. The printer starts printing one color on paper, then going back and printing over the same area with another base color with the printer's pins.) to produce the proper tone, a tiny bit of ink from the paper would be pulled back into the ribbon, contaminating the color a bit. After a while, the colors would become so contaminated that they wouldn't look the same as when the ribbon was first used. Like, yellow would eventually turn a really horrid green, black might turn a darker green, and red might turn a nasty brown.
This was the geek's wet dream right here, to aspire to owning one of these sexy beasts. I had to settle for cut-rate MPS-803 and a Panasonic KX 9 pin noisemaker.
This won't be easy to accomplish, but there are ways to do it, see here:- discussions.apple.com/thread/1527116 Older Mac with mini-DIN serial port (1980's-90's) can of course be hooked up directly, like the Mac LC in this video
This is so satisfying to watch and listen to.
Oh the memories!!! We had this on the Apple IIcs computers when I went to school in the 80s, I'm 41 now. Man, time flies!
I'll never forget this.
This is by far and away the most relaxing video I have watched on YT in a long time, so many memories from when I was a kid!!
This was our first printer when I was a kid. Oh the memories!
I remember letting this run for hours to print a 10 page color banner. That was always fun.
This takes me back to when I was in high school. I was the president of the Rotary Interact Club (a community service club) and I would print out fliers on a printer like this onto spirit master units and then run them off on a ditto machine. It was such an overlapping of old and new technology at that time.
Imagine the REAL hard work to create those softwares back then
When I was in elementary school (Gilmore School in Brockton, MA), this is the same printer my teacher had. Same thing for the Apple IIe computer
yo mamma's closet hardware from the late 80's - sweetness level mars
Boy does this bring me back! I had this for my Commodore 64! I especially liked the kaleidoscope. And those fonts! RSVP, ALEXIS, NEWS! Unfortunately, we just had a B&W printer. Still,
I thought this was a really cool program!
A black & white printer? Did you have the original ImageWriter? I know I did when we first had an Apple computer at my house for about 4 years.
@@tpirman1982 No, we didn’t have ImageWriter. Just a basic printer. I forget the model but it was compatible with our Commodore 64.
Compared to modern ink jet printers, such as my HP OfficeJet 5740, this ImageWriter II operates at a speed of 2 pages per minute.
The Imagewriter II was my workhorse in both middle school and high school.
We literally used to say "I don't need to buy greeting cards anymore, I just make them at home."
Brings back memories.
Unique piece of software. Broderbund used to rock.
A dot matrix printer that can print in COLOR? Now I've seen everything!
Unfortunately, it worked a lot like coloring markers. When mixing colors (i.e. The printer starts printing one color on paper, then going back and printing over the same area with another base color with the printer's pins.) to produce the proper tone, a tiny bit of ink from the paper would be pulled back into the ribbon, contaminating the color a bit. After a while, the colors would become so contaminated that they wouldn't look the same as when the ribbon was first used. Like, yellow would eventually turn a really horrid green, black might turn a darker green, and red might turn a nasty brown.
This was the geek's wet dream right here, to aspire to owning one of these sexy beasts. I had to settle for cut-rate MPS-803 and a Panasonic KX 9 pin noisemaker.
Love the video. Please make more Apple Image Writer II videos. Please do a video on the Apple Image Writer II printing fast.
How I missed the rhythmic servomechanical whirring and hissing of this printer.
I remember looking at that "THINKING" screen a lot. Why did it have to do that?
It was the dawn of A.I. - when computers started doing the thinking for people!
How do I hook one up with my Mac PowerBook Pro?
This won't be easy to accomplish, but there are ways to do it, see here:- discussions.apple.com/thread/1527116
Older Mac with mini-DIN serial port (1980's-90's) can of course be hooked up directly, like the Mac LC in this video
There's a typo. ImagWriter. You meant ImageWriter.
How are you making it do that
do you have friendlyware
you f*cked up
"IMAGWRITER"