🚀 go-pugleaf

First, note the Followup-To: poster line.  Please email responses, as
I'm not sure how much of any of these many newsgroups actually get fed
to my site.  If you *do* post a reply to this message, please be aware
of the extensive crossposting.

Now, the story:  Last Saturday, I bought a couple of old serial
printers at a car boot sale in my local primary school.  At $3 each,
even if they didn't work, I wouldn't have lost much.  As it happens,
one of them actually looks like it might have a chance of working - it
produces a test print-out reasonably happily.  What I would like from
the 'Net is any advice or information on the two printers.  Details
are as follows:

Printer 1 (the one that almost seems to work):

Datapoint   Model 98-9629-002(5)
Only problem so far seems to be that the front-panel buttons have an
off-by-one error, ie the "Line Feed" button does a Form Feed and the
"Form Feed" button toggles "Sel" mode.

Printer 2:

Digital Letterprinter 100  Model LA 100-PC.
This one doesn't even twitch the print head on power-up, it just sits
and beeps at me.  Could it be related to the data cartridges that
probably need to go into the empty slots in the front panel?

As yet, I haven't managed to connect a serial cable from my PC to the
printers due to not having one yet, as well as the fact that I don't
know what speeds or settings to try.  I don't even have data on the
DIP switch settings.  Any help would be mnost appreciated.

TIA

Geoff


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Geoff Field  (R&D Dept)             Email:  geoff@wcc.oz.au
Webster Computer Corporation,	   Phone: +61 3 9564-7611  Fax: +61 3 9564-7491
4 Kingston Town Close, Oakleigh
Victoria, Australia, 3166.         A.C.N   004 818 455