19 Sep
1998
19 Sep
'98
4:59 a.m.
> That doesn't always work. luckily,
there's one every year pretty
nearby.
> That's where I got my Tandy 1000 with 4 LPT
ports (I don't know how
they
> all work, but they do, and I'm not gonna
touch 'em). I was planning on
> using it as the controller, and hooking up printer guts and making it
work
by sending
line feeds and spaces, and things like through BASIC.
If you go to Doug Jones' page at the University of Iowa:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~djones
he has a link to some documentation and source code for gutting out
floppy drives so that you can control the stepper and spin the drive
motor.