Re: NEC Silentwriter LC-890 Printer -- comments?

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From: Leonard Harris
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1988 23:50

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I've used one of these for a while and I recommend you stay away from it.
There are known bugs in the serial port communications routines (at least
when we called NEC they told us to use the parallel port) and we also
found that the parallel port drops characters when the printer is busy
calculating (our software is heavy on macros)).  We have also had
one die after 3 month's use.  NEC told us they are working on the 
problems and when the machine works the output is very nice - just not
worth the aggravation.
/leonard

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Date: Fri, 22-Jan-88 18:50:18 EST
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