Msg: 5383 *Conference*
08-27-94 23:09:26
From: ANTHONY FEST
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5371 (PRINTERS)
Hello Richard, It's good to hear from you again. By the way, I'm enjoying the RAMPAC; already I can't imagine doing without it. (I'd still like to know when the RAM bank chips come in, though). With my files stored on the RAMPAC, I was about to take the disk drive in for repairs (you'll recall that I have a PDD2 which couldn't read the TS-DOS or NATIVE disks you sent -- it can't read any of the latest 4 disks either), when it occurred to me that the drive can still read (and write to) the Tandy disk containing the FLOPPY program. (i.e. the disk which came with the drive). If its heads had gotten out of alignment, shouldn't it have been unable to read that disk? (I'm not averse to spending a few $ to get the heads aligned; I just want to make sure that that is indeed the problem.) Regarding printers...yes, I do have Super ROM; I'm glad to hear that that will simplify matters, although I guess the simplest thing would be to find a parallel printer. Are parallel printers becoming rare? And if I get a serial printer, can I use the same printer cable? (i.e. are the connectors identical?) Thanks for your help! *Anthony*