Re: Imagewriter II with a PC

[jimm@scooter.cc.wwu.edu (Jim Moore)]

pads@ravel.udel.edu (Lord High Bit Counter of The Robotic Imperium) writes:

>I purchased a PC-clone about 9 months ago, and wanted to use my Imagewriter
>with it as a printer. Knowing nothing about serial ports, etc, I took one
>look at the vastly different cables and gave up. Now I have found a small
>adapter cable that is Apple Serial on one end, and IBM 25 pin serial on the
>other. I also have a 25 to 9 pin IBM serial cable. In my mind, hooking all
>of these together should give me a functioning printer, because just 
>hooking up an ancient Citizen printer to my parallel port functions.
>To test the printer I have a small text file the I try to copy to the
>printer in DOS:
>C:\TEXTFILE>copy test.txt com2
>General Failure Writing to COM2
>Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
>HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!
>If you know what I need to do please respond to this article or post a 
>followup. Do I need to install a special driver or something?
>Is there a way to get it set up for windows at least?
>Am I fighting a lost cause?
>Any help will be met with Undying gratitiude.
>Thanks
>Steve Padbury
Wow! I just posted a followup to a question sort of along these line.  Refer
to that post for a possible printer hookup or e-mail me for the info.
I tried the same thing that you are doing and I get the same error, I'm sure it
has to do with the fact that my mouse is connected via COM2, or put more
genericaly, COM2 is already assinged to a non-printing device.  I'm not an 
expert with these ports either so my answer may miss the mark by a bit, but
it might also be close.
Maybe try "copy test.txt prn".
Hard to say......
anyway, good luck with it an if you need more info on my Imagewriter to PC 
hook-up, feel free to e-mail me.

-Jim Moore		jimm@henson.cc.wwu.edu

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