I found a place through Amazon that sells tractor feed paper. They have a package of 1000 pages for around $20, so I ordered that today. With the paper and ribbons ordered, I’m looking forward to being able to print…
Monthly Archives: June 2013
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Strangely enough, that is the title of a book and a one liner for the Commodore 64. Apparently it prints a maze pattern as shown on the book’s cover. I’ve never read the book and probably never will. I was…
Old Printers, Part 1B
The problem with the ribbons was bugging me so I got up in the night and went to see what I could see. I took the ribbon that was in the printer out of the printer and tried reseating it. …
Old Printers, Part 1A
I received my Apple //c printer cable today along with two new ribbons. I wasn’t able to connect the printer to the //c yet, but I did manage to replace the ribbon and try a test page. The printer went…
Downloading files for the Apple II
If you have an Apple II and are trying to download software for it, you most likely will be using a more modern intermediate computer such as a PC or a Mac. You would download the files onto the modern machine…
Online Shopping
As you may have noticed, I shop online quite a bit. With the older machines, you almost have to. If you have also, you may have run into something I’m guilty of. I sometimes miss important details in the ad.…
Old Printers
Today, I received the ImageWriter II, that I bought on eBay. It arrived, well packed, with no cables or cords as it was described online. I dug out a power cord that would fit it and plugged it in. It…
BBS Software, Part 1A
The other day, when I discovered that AppleWin could access the physical serial port, I thought to my self, It’s to bad someone hasn’t written a program that pretends to be a modem so you could dial out over the…
Stuff
There used to be a store that we drove by up the coast a bit called Stuff. I always thought that was a cool name for a store. Sunday, I made the winning bid on an Imagewriter II printer. I…
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