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From: karish@mindcrf.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hooking up an IBM 3812 pageprinter.
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Date: 7 Aug 90 22:15:48 GMT
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In article <90219.110715BLI@psuvm.psu.edu> BLI@psuvm.psu.edu
(JEFF BRENDLE) writes:
>There is a second diskette that you must install in the 3812 for it to work
>with the 6150...

    Ours says "P/N 11F7734  EC A74721  V2.01 07-28-1988"

>of course ours isn't working yet either, so....try something/
>try everything until it does I guess is the best I can tell you ...

    The printer here has been running for a year and a half with
    no attention other than replacing expendable parts (some of them
    EXPENSIVE).

    All I had to do to get it going was

    0) Unpack the printer and plug it in.
    1) Put in the correct diskette.
    2) Change one of the DIP switches.
    3) Run `devices' to tell the system that I had a printer, not a
       terminal, on the serial line.

    I fussed with the /etc/qconfig file a bit, but I think that the
    stanza `devices' installed would have worked unchanged.
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