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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: rainbow problems
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Date: 4 Dec 89 14:32:36 GMT
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In article <3306@rti.UUCP> bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:

| I missed this the first time around.  If you don't already have a printer
| for the Rainbow, you can't use the typical PC printer (which is a parallel
| device) - you need a serial printer.  

  Well it depends on the availability of a parallel port. You could get
a parallel port option for the Rainbow (ask the man who helped keep 50
of them running), although I suspect that it took the same connector as
the hard disk, internally.

  The port labeled PRINTER is serial, as you mentioned.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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