1 Dec
2007
1 Dec
'07
3:51 a.m.
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 16:53 -0800, Steven Martin wrote:
My dad is 82, a retired College Professor, he owns a
Amstrad PCW 8256
and his printer is broken. The printer head doesn't seem to go
anywhere so it can't print. Is there someone in the USA that you know
of that can help me, we are in California. If you do not know of
anyone in the USA is there a way you can direct me to someone I can
buy parts from that speaks english or at least can communicate
through email in english.
Considering the machines were made mostly in the UK and Germany, you
should be OK on that score.
Is the head itself free to move? I seem to recall something about buffer
chips failing in the printers that caused various odd problems -
erroneous "Bail Bar Back" messages and stuff.
Maybe you should check on eBay and see if you can pick up the
serial/parallel adaptor for it, and hang a "normal" printer off it. You
could also squirt the documents across the serial port to a newer
computer. If you do this, make sure you get one with the right
connector - German PCWs had a different plug to GB ones iirc.
Gordon