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We are having a problem in our building.. one of our staff decided to bring 
their Tandy DMP 130 dot matrix printer in to hook up to a Toshiba T1000 
laptop.. they bought a standard paralell cable at Radio Shack for $40 (?!) 
but it is not working. When there is no cable plugged into the printer it 
starts up and goes online fine, but with the cable plugged in it won't even 
go online. We also tried using another verified working cable with the same 
problem. Apparently the printer works fine with a Tandy computer. There is a 
DIP switch on the back to switch between "IBM PC" and "Tandy" modes, but 
this doesn't help. I tried calling those wonderful technology experts at 
Tandy but they were about as helping as asking a goldfish. As usual.

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.