Re: Prowriter and Assembler

[Michael Mahon <mahon@cup.hp.com>]

Neil Parker wrote:
> 
> In article <4l6s97$qum@news.asu.edu> ldickey@aztec.asu.edu (L. J. DICKEY)
> writes:
> >I recently bought a C.Itoh Prowriter printer(8510) and want to
> >know where I can get some docs to use it with my //e.  I am able
> >to print using a Grappler + and it works just fine using PR#1 and
> >list (for BASIC programs) and Sneeze (for text files), but I'd like
> >to know if I can print graphics.  Nothing fancy.
> 
> Back in the times of our forefathers (ca. 1982), the C. Itoh 8510 came
> with two manuals--a white paper one from the C. Itoh company (which was
> very technical, and displayed occasional traces of Badly Translated
> Japanese Syndrome), and one with a silver paperboard cover from the
> distributor, Leading Edge (written in a "cute" style, and full of listings
> in TRS-80 BASIC).

Yep--remember them well!

But perhaps L. J. just wants to print, say, the hi-res screen(s).
This can be done with the firmware on his Grappler+, assuming that it
supports the Prowriter (or the functionally equivalent NEC 8023).

Maybe someone has the Grappler Ctrl-I command set??  Seems to me it
was something like   Ctrl-I G   to do a simple dump of hi-res screen
1...

-michael