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Apple IIe Card, Personal LaserWriter LS and StyleWriter

Apple announced three products on 1 March 1991: Apple IIe Card, Personal LaserWriter LS and StyleWriter. The day spanned Early computers and Printers.

It was the 2nd of 5 dated moments the archive holds for 1991, 18 days after the previous one, 11 February 1991.

Apple IIe Card product photograph

Apple2gs at English Wikipedia · Public domain

What Apple announced

Apple IIe Card

Early computers · Apple II · discontinued 1 May 1995

The Apple IIe Card is a compatibility card, which through hardware and software emulation, allows certain Macintosh computers to run software designed for the Apple II (excluding the 16-bit IIGS). Released in March 1991 for use with the LC family, Apple targeted the card at its widely dominated educational market to ease the transition from Apple II-based classrooms, with thousands of entrenched educational software titles, to Macintosh-based classrooms.

Personal LaserWriter LS

Printers · LaserWriter · discontinued 1 May 1993

The LaserWriter is a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter sold by Apple, Inc. from 1985 to 1988. It was one of the first laser printers available to the mass market. In combination with WYSIWYG publishing software like PageMaker that operated on top of the graphical user interface of Macintosh computers, the LaserWriter was a key component at the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution.

StyleWriter

Printers · discontinued 1 January 1993

StyleWriter is a line of inkjet serial printers by Apple, targeted mainly towards consumers. They produced print quality that was better than the dot matrix ImageWriters, and were cheaper than the LaserWriters. All but a few models contained Canon print engines, while the last few were re-badged HP Deskjet printers. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he discontinued most of the company's accessory product lines, including the StyleWriter and LaserWriter.

Also in 1991

Sources

  1. Apple IIe Card · Wikipedia
  2. Personal LaserWriter LS · Wikipedia
  3. StyleWriter · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.