Re: Obsolete?

[tim@buffnet.net (Tim)]

In article <lkrupp-0301982323000001@pm3-1-081.apci.net>, lkrupp@apci.net
(LKrupp) wrote:

> So here I sit, with my thumb up my a$$, in front of my Power Macintosh and
> HP 560C Deskwriter, inkjet printer. My wife (a sixth grade teacher) has
> just asked me to help her enter and print out 400 3X5 note cards for the
> upcoming scholar bowl competition. "That's what we bought this computer
> for, right?", she says. The HP 560C doesn't seem to like 3X5 note cards.
> The Power Mac doesn't seem to be capable of printing forms with
> non-standard dimensions. So here I sit with my thumb up my a$$.

I've gotten this to work on my Performa with an Apple Stylewriter 2400. 
(I don't know if it would work similarly on your HP, but I'll tell my tale
anyway.)

Last semester, when I was working on a project covering the City of
Buffalo History, I needed to have twenty type-written index cards.  I
opened up Word, typed them out in size 6 font (can't even see it w/o
Closeview CP) and told my printer to print.  The cards jammed up my
printer and I got error messages galore all over the screen.

After playing, screaming, and trying to reason with my computer for three
hours, I learned that if I pull the little friction lever forward on my
Stylewriter, I can place the card very deep down in the printer so that it
touches the roller.  I then move the plastic paper holder thing (I'm so
good with technical terms) so that is over as far as my 3 by 5 card. 
Then, when I tell my computer to print, it seems to think it is printing
on regualr paper (so you have to watch your spacing closely in the word
processor).  If I use the upper three by five inches, the computer will
print on the card without too much of a problem.

Okay... I doubt my description is very clear, but, anyway, it can be
done.  Now I'll stop posting Mac stuff in comp.sys.apple2.

> But wait!!! In the attic, over at my mother-in-law's house, is my trusty
> (though now obsolete and retired) Apple //e and Apple DMP parallel
> printer. The DMP accepts tractor-fed 3X5 note cards. Appleworks 3.0 lets
> me set up a database file for my wife to enter her questions and answers,
> and lets me format the output so it prints correctly on the 3X5 cards.
> What a worthless piece of obsolete crap that //e is. My wife is sitting in
> the dining room now, typing furiously away at her project.

I agree with you, though.  My trusty ol' IIGS can go places no other
computer of mine has gone before. :)

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