Keeping an old Toshiba printer

Perhaps somebody has dealt with a similar issue... I have two venerable Toshiba 24-pin dot matrix printers dating from the mid-1980s, a P1340 and a P341. They are working just fine ? evidently, Toshiba intended these beasts to endure. When I got a new laptop with 64-bit Windows 7 installed, I went through some headaches networking to a Win98 PC that interfaces to the printers, but the data path is working and stable. The problems is that Windows 7 (XP, Vista) hasn?t a clue on how to format for the older printers. I can?t find anyone with a driver that works on the 64-bit Windows 7, and I get absolutely no response when I make enquiries of Toshiba. In fact, as far as I can tell, Toshiba has purged any admission that they once manufactured these beasts from their Websites. Drivers intended for newer Toshiba products don?t produce usable output. I bought my P1340 new for $800 (a significant price for that time and my personal budget), and I am determined to keep using it as long as it works (finding ribbons has not been difficult, indicating that there?s still others working out there). My OSI Superboard, Kaypro 2 and NorthStar Horizon are all perfectly comfortable with these printers, so it is annoying the new stuff is finding it so difficult. Has anyone either (1) made/encountered/adapted a printer driver that would allow Windows 7 to format output for the Toshibas, or (2) found a method of convincing Windows 7 to use printer drivers written for Win98/95/3.1? I really am trying to save myself from having to learn how to write printer drivers for Windows 7... or loading Linux only to find similar issues... Regards, from Bob [rmaxwell at bell.net]