CompuServe Thread

#A-Time

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#44196From: Bill AtkinsonDec 17, 1986 2:11 AM
George, I do have the reset pin connected to my printer and my A-Time works perfectly. The point I was making was that some printer cables have the reset pin connected to the wrong pin of your printer. In these cases (since you are not using the reset pin anyway) is better to disconnect it or rehook it to the correct pin of your printer. By the way there is no place for anything in my 2nd mouse port because THAT IS WHERE I HAVE MY *** SUPERBASE *** DONGLE. I had A-Time for 10 months and not a bit of trouble (I never hook anything to my Amiga before I check its connections. People have been frying Amigas because thay did not check the serial cable of their modem. Never trust anything unless it has the seal of Amiga on it, and I have yet to see a printer from CBM for the Amiga). Bill.
#44255From: Dave Haynie/C128 LandDec 17, 1986 10:40 AM
Amiga printers from CBM: MPS-1000 (I've got one of these), MPS-1200 (I think this one needs an extra personality module for Amiga use). Of course, CBM's never been known to sell the best printers in the world, and there's a good reason for this. The MPS-1000 is OEMed from Epson, the MPS-1200 I think from Citizen. Neither of these companies really wants to sell CBM their newest, coolest, do-everythingist top of the line printer, cause they want to be the ones to sell it. So CBM's OEMed printer, though maybe a bit cheaper, probably won't be quite as amazing as the best in any one year from Epson, Citizen, or other printer manufacturers. But the Amiga works well with just about any printer, so there's no reason to wait to find one from CBM, though they are out there if you want one. -Dave