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From: jbg@wsc-sun.boeing.com (James Glidewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ImageWriter II making undesired HEX
Message-ID: <303@wsc-sun.BOEING.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 90 17:53:34 GMT
References: <64334@<1990Jun23> <88500020@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA
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In article <88500020@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>/* Written  1:43 am  Jun 23, 1990 by potency@violet.berkeley.edu */
> > My ImageWriter II has been occasionaly making HEX dumps rather than
> > printing text.

This is a *feature* not a bug. :-)  If the select button is depressed when the
IW II is powered up, the printer goes into a debug mode which prints out those
hex digits. It is VERY easy to accidentally push down both buttons when one is
in a hurry to turn the printer on.


-- 
Jim Glidewell
jbg@wsc-sun.boeing.com
uw-beaver!bcsaic!wsc-sun!jbg