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Help with Tandy 1000TX problem
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Author: "Jon Brazelton, Residence Hall C...
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:41
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HELP!  I have a problem that maybe someone has an idea on how to help me.

I have a Tandy 1000TX (OK, I know it's terrible, but I'm a starving college
student, and I'm stuck with it until I graduate), and I just bought a new
bubble jet printer to use with it.  However, I don't want to waste the ink
cartridge on normal printing, so I want to use my old dot matrix printer
also.  My solution ... use an A/B switch.  Now the problem ... the 1000TX
uses some sort of edge card for a printer output rather than a DB25 port.  I
can't find any cable, other that one with this edge card connector on one
end, and a Centronix 36 connector on the other.  The A/B switches I have
found need a DB25 connector for the input.

Anyone have any ideas?  I know this sounds sort of confusing, but it's about
to really p*ss me off!  If anyone knows where I can get an A/B switch with a
Centronix 36 connector as an input, I would really like to know.  Let me
know if you can think of any other solutions.

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                           Jon Brazelton / N4VRN
Residence Hall Coordinator               First Lieutenant (P), Signal Corps
Tennessee Technological University       278th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Cookeville, Tennessee                    Tennessee Army National Guard
                          JPB7946 @ TNTECH.edu
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