On Monday, December 11th, 1995 - Gil Parrish wrote:
 
GP> My 825 has a tan case; I really can't be more specific since I 
GP> stuffed it up in the attic over the weekend.  At least I'll still 
 
It sounds like mine.  It must have been a different revision, I just
don't remember any dip switches in mine.
 
GP> Thanks for the description of the pico fuse array.  If the printer 
GP> ever starts working but some of the pins do not, at least I'll know 
GP> why before I finally throw the thing in the garbage.
 
And in your printer it may not have that buffer board with the pico
fuses - I think some of them did and others didn't (but don't quote me
on that).   :-)
 
GP> I guess the thing really doesn't do graphics (if it worked at all); 
 
Nope, it sure didn't.  Although it was a dot matrix printer, it came
from a time before dot addressable graphics.
 
GP> does it do upper and lower case?  All of the examples in the manual 
GP> are upper case, although looking at the chart in the back it appears 
GP> it *ought* to do lowercase as well.
 
It does a very flakey looking lower case in its normal text mode.  But
it does have a very nice looking proportional character set that has
lowe case as well.  The problem was that the proportional character set
would never align according the word processor's column settings.  You
couldn't get it to right justify.
 
GP> Yeah, loss of this printer doesn't exactly break me up, since I got 
GP> it free in a pile of other stuff, and I have some much nicer 
GP> printers.  Still, I hate to lose ANY item of computer equipment 
GP> without at least a little bit of a fight. 
 
Yes, I know what you mean.  I have had to stop myself from spending too
much time on dead and worthless equipment - just not cost effective.
 
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