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From: jsdph@acad3.alaska.edu (HARRIS DENNIS P)
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Subject: Re: Printer question
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Date: 8 Mar 91 11:07:36 GMT
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In article <7863@plains.NoDak.edu>, skar@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith Skar 
aka Roddy) writes...
>Our School has a Daisywriter printer made by Computers International
>model # 1500/2000.  Problem is that we cant find the manual for it
>and want to hook it up to a LAN as a remote printer.  So, does any
>body know of a printer it is compatable with.  

dredging back in my memory to my cp/m days, i believe that this 
printer emulated a diablo 630.  but the daisywriter is *very* 
slow (about 10cps), so i can't understand why you would want to 
use it as a net printer.  if it's a parallel printer, you may 
have to set the capture timeout alittle higher.  if it's a serial 
printer and you have buffer overruns, make sure that your serial 
port is using the same protocol as teh printer.  chances are, the 
printer is set for xon/xoff on the port is set for some type of 
hardware handshaking.  if i remember, some models of the 
daisywriter had fairly large buffers for that period, like 4k.

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