A fast 68000 in the Apple LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus, also the LaserWriter IInt ( all 300 dpi ).

The 68000 became the dominant CPU for Unix based workstations including Sun workstations and Apollo / Domain workstations, found its way into heralded computers such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, and was used in the first generation of desktop laser printers including the original Apple Inc. LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet.

Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

The HP LaserJet printer was quickly followed by laser printers from Brother Industries, IBM, Apple Computer ( with the LaserWriter ) and others.

The LaserWriter could print more complex layouts than the HP Laserjet and other non-Postscript printers.

The LaserWriter was also the first peripheral to use the LocalTalk connector and Apple ’ s unified round AppleTalk Connector Family, which allowed any variety of mechanical networking systems to be plugged into the ports on the computers or printers.

Eventually, the LaserWriter and other printers were capable of being connected using AppleTalk, Apple's built-in networking system.

Via Berkeley's special geoCable interface converter or other third-party interfaces to connect standard RS-232 or Centronics printers to the Commodore serial bus, GEOS supported a wide variety of printers, including HP PCL printers and the Apple LaserWriter.

* For high-end users, the LaserWriter II NTX also included a SCSI controller for storage of printer fonts on a hard drive dedicated for use by the printer.

* The LaserWriter IIf had a faster processor than the IINTX, a newer version of PostScript and also HP PCL, and included the SCSI interface for font storage on an external hard drive

A fast 68030 in later PostScript interpreters, including the standard resolution LaserWriter IIntx, IIf and IIg ( also 300 dpi ), the higher resolution LaserWriter Pro 600 series ( usually 600 dpi, but limited to 300 dpi with minimum RAM installed ) and the very high resolution Linotronic imagesetters, the 200PS ( 1500 + dpi ) and 300PS ( 2500 + dpi ).

When Apple introduced the LaserWriter, its very high cost meant that the only cost-effective way to use it was shared among a small workgroup of Macintoshes.

* For low-end users, there was the LaserWriter II SC, a host-based QuickDraw printer connected via SCSI that did not use PostScript and did not require a license from Adobe.

This system was notably chosen by John Warnock and Charles Geschke when they created Adobe PostScript, by Apple as the screen resolution for the original Macintosh, and for the LaserWriter that launched the desktop publishing industry.

Experience at Atex helped entrepeneur Paul Brainerd see the potential of the Apple Macintosh, Apple LaserWriter and Adobe Postscript for what would be called " desktop publishing.

While PostScript printing had never been easy, over the years since the release of the original LaserWriter developers had built up a library of solutions to common problems.

At their new company, they developed an equivalent technology, PostScript, from scratch, and brought it to market for Apple's LaserWriter in 1984.

The Macintosh team had already begun work on what would become the LaserWriter, and had considered a number of other options of how to share these expensive machines and other resources.

A series of memos from Bob Belleville clarified these concepts, outlining the Mac, LaserWriter and a file server system which would become Macintosh Office.

This could be as simple as a network of Ethernet Mac II's trying to talk to a LaserWriter.

Other printer manufacturers adopted the 68000, including Apple with its introduction of the LaserWriter in 1985, the first PostScript laser printer.

Apple used it in the QMS PS 410 and the LaserWriter II-NTX.

In March 1985, the Apple LaserWriter was the first printer to ship with PostScript, sparking the desktop publishing ( DTP ) revolution in the mid-1980s.

The LaserWriter used a 12 MHz Motorola 68000, making it faster than any of the Macintosh computers it attached to.

In contrast, printer fonts for the popular Apple LaserWriter were based on PostScript Type 1 outlines, resulting in excellent output at all printer sizes, but failing on the 72 dot per inch Mac screens.

The initial Truetype outline fonts, four-weight families of Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier, and the Pi font replicated the original PostScript fonts of the Apple LaserWriter.

The LaserWriter was a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter introduced by Apple in 1985.

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.

The LaserWriter was announced at Apple's annual shareholder meeting on January 23, 1985, the same day Aldus announced PageMaker.

However, the LaserWriter featured AppleTalk support that allowed the printer to be shared among as many as sixteen Macs, meaning that its per-user price could fall to under $ 450, far less expensive than HPs less-advanced model.

The combination of the LaserWriter, PostScript, PageMaker and the Mac's GUI and built-in AppleTalk networking would ultimately transform the landscape of computer desktop publishing.

At the time, Apple planned to release a suite of AppleTalk products as part of the Macintosh Office, with the LaserWriter being only the first component.

To support this, the LaserWriter featured a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 12 MHz, 512 kB of workspace RAM, and a 1 MB frame buffer.

At introduction, the LaserWriter had the most processing power in Apple ’ s product line — more than the 8 MHz Macintosh.

As a result, the LaserWriter was also one of Apple's most expensive offerings.

Since the cost of a LaserWriter was several times that of a dot-matrix impact printer, some means to share the printer with several Macs was desired.

Based on the AppleTalk protocol stack, LocalTalk connected the LaserWriter to the Mac over an RS-422 serial port.

Introduced as the Macintosh Plus, it was the first Macintosh model to include a SCSI port, which launched the popularity of external SCSI devices for Macs, including hard disks, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and even monitors.

Many older LaserJets and other HP printers ( including LaserJet 4 +, 4MV, 4MP, 4P, 5, 5M, 5MP, 5N, 5P, 5se, 5Si MOPIER, 5Si, 5Si NX, 6MP, 6P, 6Pse, 6Pxi, C3100A ; DesignJet 330, 350C, 700, 750C, 750C Plus ; DeskJet: 1600C, 1600CM, 1600CN ; and PaintJet XL300 ) used proprietary 72-pin HP SIMMs for memory expansion.

The Plus 3 included an uprated Power-supply unit, that was designed to power the Plus 3, in addition to the Electron and the Plus 1 interface as well.

Dolby Digital has similar technologies, included in Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital Surround EX, Dolby Digital Recording, Dolby Digital Cinema, Dolby Digital Stereo Creator and Dolby Digital 5. 1 Creator.

It was up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive floppy disk drive as standard.

The Classic featured several improvements over the Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer: it was up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive 3. 5 " floppy disk drive as standard.

Rare Sonic games Sonic CD and Sonic Drift were also planned to be included, but the former was deferred to Sonic Gems Collection and the latter appeared in Sonic Mega Collection Plus.

All models except the last included the Locoscript word processing program, the CP / M Plus operating system, Mallard BASIC and the LOGO programming language at no extra cost.

The PCW included a version of CP / M known as " CP / M Plus " or " CP / M +".

Open six nights a week for live music, past acts included Joshua Redman, Roberta Flack, Roy Haynes, Omar Sosa, The Bad Plus, Moe Goldstein, Michael Lington and Danilo Perez.

The Plus also included a 56k modem.

In order to accommodate large nightly downloads of television schedules, a hard drive was included in the original Plus ; as chip prices fell faster than hard drive prices, later versions of the Plus used an M-systems DiskOnChip flashrom chip instead.

Investors included Dave McClure of 500 Startups, last. fm founder Felix Miller, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Brian Nelson ( CEO at Japan-based ValueCommerce ), Pageflakes co-founder Christoph Janz, Benjamin Joffe ( CEO at China-based Plus Eight Star ), and a number of Japanese angels.

This edition contains the song " Romance Beyond the Alphabet ", which is the orchestral instrumental version of " Time ( Clock of the Heart ), also included on Culture Club Collect – 12 " Mixes Plus and its subsequent re-release Culture Club Remix Collection as " Time ( Clock of the Heart ) ( Instrumental Mix )".

While most downloaded files initially included restrictions on their use, enforced by FairPlay, Apple's implementation of digital rights management, iTunes later initiated a shift into selling DRM-free music in most countries, marketed as iTunes Plus.

Certain other Sony proprietary software such as Click to Disc Editor, Vaio Music Box, Vaio Movie Story, Vaio Media Plus are also included with recent models.

Instead of the original Integer BASIC, the Apple II Plus firmware included the newer Applesoft II floating point BASIC.

* When the Apple II Plus was introduced, it included the ability to scan each expansion slot ( working downward from slot 7 to slot 1 ) for an expansion card ROM with additional boot code, and automatically call it.

The Game Gear version was later included as part of the Sonic Mega Collection Plus compilation, released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2004 and for PC in 2006.

Apple Computer licensed a more full-featured ( but also much slower ) BASIC from Microsoft soon after the Apple II was released in 1977, introduced some tweaks, named it Applesoft BASIC, and included the second version of it in the ROMs of the Apple II Plus, which was released in.

Applesoft BASIC was included in the ROMs of all Apple II models from the Apple II Plus forward, and eventually became the platform for far more programs than Integer BASIC.

TI replaced the TI-83 with the TI-83 Plus calculator in 1999, which included flash memory, enabling the device's operating system to be updated if needed, or for large new Flash Applications to be stored, accessible through a new Apps key.