· Release

Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display and LaserWriter 8500

Apple released two products on 5 August 1997: Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display and LaserWriter 8500. The day spanned Displays and Printers.

It was the 7th of 8 dated moments the archive holds for 1997, 50 days after the previous one, 16 June 1997.

Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display product photograph

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What Apple released

LaserWriter 8500

Printers · LaserWriter

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.

Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display product photograph
Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display

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LaserWriter 8500 product photograph
LaserWriter 8500

Apple · CC0

Also in 1997

Sources

  1. Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display · Wikipedia
  2. LaserWriter 8500 · Wikipedia

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