On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
> > The links to Tandy's own documentation suggests the need for
> > the different cables depending on what printer type is used. Some of
> > their later printers did have an option switch which did allow you to
> > choose between Tandy and IBM modes, afaik. Maybe it was something as
> > simple as the LF and CR being different. That's been enough of a
> > difference to cause problems with text editors and such between
> > systems in the past.
>
> Absolutely!
> The first time that I tried to share a printer between model ones, threes
> and PCs (remember Quadram's big multi-input "Multifazer"? buffer? (FS)), I
> had a choice between double spacing on the PC output, or "paper-saving
> mode" on the TRS-80 output.
>
> But did they actually try to deal with that through CABLING?!?
It seems like they did. Here's the link to the list of Tandy/TRS-80
printers, and the recommended cables:
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/1kfaq.html#II.H.2
-Toth
Received on Sat Jan 05 2002 - 20:44:31 GMT