Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!rata.vuw.ac.nz!banksie From: banksie@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: HP deskjet 500 Keywords: deskjet, printerdriver Message-ID: <1991Jun28.052048.19044@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 28 Jun 91 05:20:48 GMT References: Organization: Student,Victoria University Lines: 20 In article vanaards@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Steven van Aardt) writes: >PS. I went off to my local unfriendly Acorn dealer yesterday (Orion Computers) > in an attempt to get an upgrade for the Acorn MIDI board, they hadn't heard > of such a thing ! And weren't too polite in telling me so ! Is this the > sort of response others are getting from their local Acorn dealers ? > Heh. Consider yourself lucky. You actually have a dealer near you that doesn't have to import/request hardware from usually at least 669km away and more often has to get from britain (Which is some distance from here). Our dealer has to look in the Micro User to see what is available.... Ah well at least he does eventually get the item wanted... Philip -- *------------------------------------------------------------------* @@@@@@/| | BANKSie! (aka Philip Banks) BANKSIE@rata.vuw.ac.nz | @@@@@/#| | An Arc owner stuck in an almost non Arc spot. | @@@@/##| |Thus Quoth the Raven `Nevermore!'.And my spirits sank to the floor| @@@/---|