Re: print slave must die!

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 06:21

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Here's a quick *hardware* solution to the "no printer hang".

Get a male DB-25 connector. Insulation displacement type works well
for this. Run a piece of hookup wire from pin 1 to pin 10. Snap on
the back of the connector. Now plug it into the printer port.

You now have the worlds fastest printer. :-)

In case you are curious, what you've just done is connect the
STROBE line to the READY line. So as soon as the computer asserts
STROBE [data ready for printer] it gets READY [printer ready for
more data]

We've had to use this to get a few machines to be able to rediirect
PrtScr to a network printer.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]

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From: leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: print slave must die!
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Date: 30 Jul 90 06:21:16 GMT
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