Re: Apple IIe & Super Serial Card

["jkalin196511@yahoo.com" <jkalin196511@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Don!  Works perfectly!  Now if I could just get my IIGS to print
to a Imagwriter I, I'll be set.

Jim



Don Bruder wrote:
> In article <1112494312.526960.146200@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
>  "jkalin196511@yahoo.com" <jkalin196511@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It's booting, but still not printing :-(
> >
>
> From the IW2 manual (which, as coincidence would have it, I just
managed
> to locate yesterday while I was digging for something else):
>
> Note - 0 = "off"/"open", 1 = "on"/"closed", as appropriate for how
the
> blocks of DIP switches happen to be labeled on your particular SSC.
Some
> came labeled "on"/"off", some "closed"/"open", and some "1"/"0",
> depending on the source of the switch blocks.
>
> Switch block 1   Switch Block 2
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7    1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 0 0 0 1 0 1 1    1 0 0 1 1 0 0
>
> Terminal/Modem jumper block:
> Pull it off the card and point the arrow on it at "Terminal" if it
isn't
> that way already.
>
>
> On the IW2 end:
> If you lift off the cover, and look in the lower left-hand corner
(you
> may need to slide the printhead to the right to get an unobstructed
> view) you'll see two more blocks of DIP switches. "Reading" them from

> left to right, they should be set as follows:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8      1 2 3 4 5 6
> 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0      1 1 0 0 X X
>
> Again, 0 = off/open, 1 = on/closed. DON'T MESS WITH #5 AND #6 (the
two
> "X" values) on the right-hand group! Just take it from someone who
did
> in the "long ago", and went through hell trying to figure out how to
put
> 'em back "right" - They make a hash out of anything printed if messed

> with. Something to do with the timing of the pins firing as the head
> crosses the page. Printed output gets all kinds of "wiggly" if you
mess
> with those two switches, and if you don't write the settings down,
> you're gonna have fun trying to put them back right.
>
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