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From: Geoffrey.Welsh@isishq.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 3 Paperclip III questions...
Message-ID: <206.234963B7@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 4 Oct 88 00:44:37 GMT
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 > From: zz96sr@net1.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk)
 > Date: 30 Sep 88 14:11:26 GMT
 > Message-ID: <1170@ucsd.EDU>
 
 >      If there are any Paperclip III users out there.......

 
   I worked with Steve Douglas on PaperClips II and III until about 

a year ago.

 >      1.  Does Paperclip III support serial printers?
 
   YES. It's configurable in a menu, and the configurations can be 

saved to disk so that they become default in the future.
 
   The maximum speed you can run a serial printer at depends on your 

machine; the C128 in 80-column mode will allow you to run 9600 (the 
top speed supported in the telecom module) and, although you might 
be able to set the baud rate as high as 7200 in 40-column mode (or 
on C64s), I don't suggest going above 4800 (3600 for safety). I recently 
wrote some much better code that would have allowed higher transfer 
rates, but Steve turned them down, saying that there really wasn't 
much justification for adding them at this point. This shouldn't be 
a problem, since I don't expect to find PaperClip connected to too 
many printers that can run more than 300 CPS anyway...
 
 > 2.  What method of copy protection does Paperclip III use?
 
   Trust. EA wanted to use a key disk system, but we found that it 

had a 25% failure rate in OUR 1541's, which were scrupulously maintained 
(read: never used). We shuddered to think of the failure rate out there 

in a public of badly aligned drives.
 
   Disk copy protection was out, since we wanted to allow users to 

back up the disk. Dongles were prohibitively expensive - by the time 
they got through the markups at every step of the marketing chain, 
they added $10 or more to the shelf price of the product, so they were 
scrapped.


 >      3.  Are files created by the original Paperclip compatible
 >          with Paperclip III?
 
   Definitely. And, in addition to PaperClip's long-standing abilty 

to write text to sequential files, you now have the ability to save 
them in TRUE ASCII.
 
   Geoff ( watmath!isishq!izot )
 
NOTE: I'm not worried. Who would ever want to sue ME?


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