30 Apr
2007
30 Apr
'07
2:59 p.m.
Personally, i
like the amstrad pcw's. Sold as a
cheap wordprocessor, it
also came with cp/m,a strong basic and a dot matrix
printer for as
little as =A3200.
What do you mean "came with"? On disk, or in rom. and mine came repleat with the printer BTW.
Be warned that the printer interface is not Centronics, or even close.
It's a very low-level interface, essentially drive lines to the stepper
motors, printhed coils, etc (the actual driver stages _are_ in the
printer).
If you want to use some other printer with the PCW, there was a
serial/parallel interface module that plugged onto the expansion bus
connector (which is basically the Z80 bus). I have no idea where you'd
find one.
-tony