[Coco] [coco] Amazing!

[Benoit Bleau]

George Ramsower wrote:
> A couple of days ago, I developed a need for a printer on my CNC coco. 
> So I went out to my shop and found my old Oki ML 172 that I've had 
> laying around for years, dusted it off, plugged it into power and 
> turned it on into the self-printing mode and the darn thing still 
> prints. Although the ink is pretty dried out, it's still legible.
> This morning I had to make a new boot disk for that coco because I 
> didn't have the driver in the original boot.
> Xmode the /p and it was set to 9600. So I did a DIR >/p through the 
> old serial to parallel port adapter and it worked.
>
> It took me two days to find the converter.
>
> I was sure something was not going work, but amazingly enough, no 
> problems. Now I'll re-ink that old ribbon and get back to work.
>
> George

They don't make them like they used to :)

-Benoit