[Coco] [coco] Amazing!

[John]

Hello George,

I'll ask the silly question - how exactly can someone nowadays re-ink an old
ribbon like that?

Thanks,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Benoit Bleau
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 8:26 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] [coco] Amazing!

George Ramsower wrote:
> A couple of days ago, I developed a need for a printer on my CNC coco. 
> So I went out to my shop and found my old Oki ML 172 that I've had 
> laying around for years, dusted it off, plugged it into power and 
> turned it on into the self-printing mode and the darn thing still 
> prints. Although the ink is pretty dried out, it's still legible.
> This morning I had to make a new boot disk for that coco because I 
> didn't have the driver in the original boot.
> Xmode the /p and it was set to 9600. So I did a DIR >/p through the 
> old serial to parallel port adapter and it worked.
>
> It took me two days to find the converter.
>
> I was sure something was not going work, but amazingly enough, no 
> problems. Now I'll re-ink that old ribbon and get back to work.
>
> George

They don't make them like they used to :)

-Benoit

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