I think that maybe I haven't been clear enough about the difficulty we have with the Video Writer. Several people have written to tell me that A-drives/floopy disk readers are still available. That isn't the problem; I have one on both my PC and my laptop for my sewing machine software.
There also isn't any problem with what is on the Video writer at the moment; she has printed off her latest batch of lace notes and the rest of the stored stuff in the memory or on floppies is things like recipes that she doesn't need as paper copies. The floppy disc bit only comes into the equation if we can't get any more ribbon cartridges because *if* a PC could read the Video Writer's language (highly unlikely) then she could go on using it and someone else could print for her. But it's not worth her doing that if we then have to jump through expensive hoops to get it converted and printed. The alternative is that she buys a laptop and small printer but that is really more than she wants to/can spend out and she has very limited footprint space for it. What we need is either a source of more cartridges (none on e-bay) or advice on reusing the ones she has. There is a company that comes up on Google that appears to sell them, but they are all 'Not Available'! This isn't surprising as Phillips stopped making the cartridges in 2002, and the machines some time before that. And yes, we have phoned Phillips here and in Holland and they sold their last ones just before Christmas. So, it's a very long shot that someone may have had one of these machines and still have some ribbon cartridges in the back of a drawer, or found out a way to use a cartridge more than once as at only 40 pages each, it must have been an expensive business, and I think if it was us we would have at least tried to find a way to use it a second time. But arachne has come up trumps in the past on equally long shots, so I thought I would try it. I hope that I have clarified the matter. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
