Bill Girnius wrote: No, _most_ Tandy printers were parallel. The computers theirselves had custom connectors, the other end was a Centronics-34. The DIN cable was strictly for the Color Computer line. Even the printer which was almost the Siamese twin to the first Color Computers, the LP-VII, had the parallel port. And any PC comcrapable will talk to them. The only "problem" is that early Tandy printers accept a carriage return as both a carriage return and a line feed -- as the computers use that internally in text files. Tandy's later printers took a command (later a physical switch setting) so that PCs wouldn't double-space by sending both codes. All of the "DMP" printers accept this code, as do the daisy wheels starting with the DWP-IIB. Tandy supplied a device driver for their PC comcrapables to prevent the machines (and it works on other PC clones) to make PCs not send the unnecessary line-feed. I don't recall the catalog number, but it's in the current catalog. -- Ward Griffiths Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie, that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.