John Carmonne wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:10 PM, tortoise wrote: > > > > > > > On Jan 27, 4:09 pm, JOHN CARMONNE <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:08 AM, classical wrote: > >> > > > > >> The Epson used to work on this machine with OS 8.6, the only change > >> I've made is I installed a 300MHz motherboard in place of the 233 > >> original, But I have another Wallstreet 233 MHz and it won't run the > >> printer either. > >>
To me this means the printer has something wrong with it. possibly the serial port has become bad. No way to tell if the parallel is good w/ out hooking it up to something. > >> The Epson printers have always been a PITA for me, but this was my > >> son's first printer and we have to keep it up as long as it still > >> prints a test page. > > > > The serial port really slows down even a 14 years old printer like > > this one. Maybe a usb card for the wally too... > Do you know of an adapter that actually works from serial to USB? all I ever > tried never have. The thing I don't get is it worked on 8.6 before. I meant get a usb pc-card adapter for the wally and a parallel usb adapter for the 600. If you want to come up to SanFrancisco I'll let you try my adapter with your printer and your printer with my wally. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
