5 Jan
2002
5 Jan
'02
12:44 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
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
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?!?