expansion differences (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_canada.com>
Date: Sat Apr 27 02:49:29 2002

Fred, you're my man! All the same printers, among others, that I used
with my CBM PETs (except the LJ which came later, and my Diablo
was the model without the 4004), and they were all FINE printers,
especially the 101 (a substantial piece of hardware indeed); still have
the 40 foot (!) parallel ribbon cable so I could keep the printer in the
basement & close the door to keep the noise reasonable upstairs in
the office...

mike
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: expansion differences (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

> The only printers for the coco really was the RS ones and really crappy
> at that too!

ANY "RS-232" printer that was switchable to "AUTO LF" would work just
fine.
And, with a serial/parallel converter (reaily available, and which quite a
few people here are capable of building), parallel "centronics" printers
worked.

I used a Coco with DTC-300 (HiType I daisy wheel, with 4004 processor),
Centronics 101 (weighed 4 zillion times what the computer did), silly
radio shack pen plotter/printer, Epson MX-100, and HP Laserjet! Which of
those is the crappiest?
Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 02:49:29 BST