[Coco] DLOAD

[Neil Morrison]

Most printers now are fairly dumb and need Windows to generate the data for 
them. They can't run off 8 bit computers.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgeramsower at gmail.com>

>   I just remembered that this was when printers didn't have much buffer 
> space. Usually only one line of data was all they could hold. So this may 
> be a moot point on modern printers. However, can a coco actually print to 
> a a modern printer? I've wondered about this.
> The new printers seem to use softwar in the computer to generate the 
> graphics to print simple text. Is this correct?
>
> Since I print my coco stuff from this PC, I haven't put a lot of thought 
> to this question. The PC does the work. I have little knowledge of how a 
> PC and Winderz XP works.