Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to THURSTON ACKERMAN:

 MMC> 07 Aug 2005, 07:43, THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140), wrote to MATT
 MMC> MC_CARTHY: 

 MMC> Hi THURSTON.

 MM>>Do the paper feed rollers still turn?

 TA> No.

 MMC> Then there is not much hope other than to check the seating and
 MMC> connections of the cables from the drive motor to the board.  

 MMC> The linefeed signals are either not getting from the processor to
 MMC> the driver chips, or from the driver chips to the motor.  If you
 MMC> can 'unplug' or 'release' the cables and re-seat them with no
 MMC> benefit, it is probably going to be too difficult to trouble
 MMC> shoot, and I would have to agree with the 'boat anchor' scenario! 
 MMC> :-((

Jeez,  doesn't anybody fix this stuff any more?  (Feeling more and more
like this skillset I've been honing for decades now is completely
obsolete...)

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