Working with older equipment has one drawback that you wouldn’t think of normally. Cords.
In this day and age or wireless this and that, the cord became my drawback. I’ve been working with both my Apple //c and my MacSE and both need to be able to use the printer, ImageWriter II.
I had my computer equipment stretched out over two desks, a file cabinet and a TV tray. I had the printer and the Apple //c on one end and the MacSE on the other end. The printer cord wouldn’t reach. The solution, rearrange, was a good time to do a little cleaning. So that is what I worked on today. My Apple computer equipment is now closer together so they can work together. I disconnected all my computer equipment, cleaned up the area, rearranged everything, and reconnected it all.
In addition to making sure each machine is up and running, I connected the //c to my Windows 7 desktop and the MacSE to my Linux desktop. Both the //c and the MacSE have cords that go to the ImageWriter II and I can just plug in the one I need to print. At some point I’ll probably have to look at getting a switch to put between the ImageWriter II and both my Apples.
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