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   From: frizzle@tx.rr.com   
      
   jon wrote:   
   > On Nov 1, 12:00 pm, N Morrison  wrote:   
   >> On Nov 1, 6:04 am, jon  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Hi. I've finally gotten the machine to boot into model iii BASIC but   
   >>> still whenever I put any system disk into drive 0 it reads simply   
   >>> "DISK ERROR." It spins fine and sounds like it's reading but never   
   >>> gets there. Also I've got a dot matrix printer. How do I make it work?   
   >>> It gets power and a green light comes on but I plugged it in to the   
   >>> bottom of the computer and when I use "LPRINT xxxx" nothing happens,   
   >>> it just kind of freezes for a minute. Any ideas?   
   >> You may have the wrong printer or cable. IBM screwed the system up and   
   >> made it incompatible.   
   >>   
   >> Ask onhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/trs-80/   
   >   
   > No, It is a Tandy line printer.   
      
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