[Coco] Heavy Duty Printers

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/11/06 7:19:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
neilsmorr at hotpop.com writes:

>There was the DWP410, but all of these were DWPxxx models. I don't  remember 
>any of them having a serial port. "My wife's business OS9  system" doesn't 
>mean a Coco - I assumed some other  hardware.



Actually her system *was* Coco based -- I set it up for her way back when,  
and she ran it for at least 3 or 4 years, before getting a Mac laptop.  Her  
first system used a Coco II with 64K, later upgraded to a III with 128K, or  
maybe I put 512 in it for her.  B&W monitor, nice and sharp.
 
Two floppy drives, OS9L2, and that big daisy wheel printer -- pretty sure  we 
used a serial port, though I had a parallel converter on my "big" system  
(dual hard drives) downstairs, so I could print graphics like UME music  scores.
 
She used DynaStar and DynaForm for correspondence and notes to herself, and  
it worked just fine, though I got roped into emergency fixes back then, just 
as  I do now with her Windows XP laptops.
 
BTW, be wary of some new laptops with wide aspect-ratio screens (16:9  rather 
than the standard 4:3) -- some software (such as AOL menus) does not deal  
well with the odd shape.
--Mike K.