CluelessInSeattle
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Back in the day I had a Juki daisy wheel printer, and then a little Okidata dot matrix printer. Sadly they both got lost during some hectic times during which I even ended up homeless for a spell.
So, now that I'm having a lot of fun digging out my old MS-DOS software and firing up an ancient laptop and a PC to run DOS on, I'm wondering what kind of printer I should look for that I could hook up to my MS-DOS system.
Do they still make ribbons for the old dot matrix or daisy wheel printers?
I have an HP laser jet printer that I use with my creaky old Windows system, but have no idea if there's a way to use modern printers with MS-DOS.
I'd be grateful for some advice on how I could get a printer hooked up to my DOS laptop. I'm having a lot of fun writing batch files and would like to be able to print out the batch code directly from my laptop. (Now I'm using a "sneaker net": I copy the batch files to a floppy and then walk the floppy over to one of my Windows computers that still has a floppy drive in it, and print it from there.
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
So, now that I'm having a lot of fun digging out my old MS-DOS software and firing up an ancient laptop and a PC to run DOS on, I'm wondering what kind of printer I should look for that I could hook up to my MS-DOS system.
Do they still make ribbons for the old dot matrix or daisy wheel printers?
I have an HP laser jet printer that I use with my creaky old Windows system, but have no idea if there's a way to use modern printers with MS-DOS.
I'd be grateful for some advice on how I could get a printer hooked up to my DOS laptop. I'm having a lot of fun writing batch files and would like to be able to print out the batch code directly from my laptop. (Now I'm using a "sneaker net": I copy the batch files to a floppy and then walk the floppy over to one of my Windows computers that still has a floppy drive in it, and print it from there.
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"