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TRS 80 model 4, printer and floppy
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jon
Nov 1, 2009, 9:04:38 AM11/1/09
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Hi. I've finally gotten the machine to boot into model iii BASIC but
still whenever I put any system disk into drive 0 it reads simply
"DISK ERROR." It spins fine and sounds like it's reading but never
gets there. Also I've got a dot matrix printer. How do I make it work?
It gets power and a green light comes on but I plugged it in to the
bottom of the computer and when I use "LPRINT xxxx" nothing happens,
it just kind of freezes for a minute. Any ideas?
still whenever I put any system disk into drive 0 it reads simply
"DISK ERROR." It spins fine and sounds like it's reading but never
gets there. Also I've got a dot matrix printer. How do I make it work?
It gets power and a green light comes on but I plugged it in to the
bottom of the computer and when I use "LPRINT xxxx" nothing happens,
it just kind of freezes for a minute. Any ideas?
N Morrison
Nov 1, 2009, 12:00:15 PM11/1/09
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You may have the wrong printer or cable. IBM screwed the system up and
made it incompatible.
jon
Nov 1, 2009, 1:33:33 PM11/1/09
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No, It is a Tandy line printer.
Charles Richmond
Nov 1, 2009, 9:22:27 PM11/1/09
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Read the following web page and *then* post here again:
http://nemesis.lonestar.org/reference/computers/interfaces/centronics.html
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