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Lovash 45420
I would like to tell you about a new
printer and interface which I got
today along with your disk. The print-
er is an Okidata u82A. The interface
is a card?+G from Cardco, inc.
I am familiar with the printer from
using two of them at work for the last
several months. They have performed
very well. I work at an electronic
research and development company, and
we exercise the printers daily. I was
impressed by the speed, print quality
and versatility due to the printer
having both and RS232 and a Centronics
interface built in. This is important
to me for the future. Like it or not,
the Commodore 64 will [become]
outdated. When this happens, I will
still be able to use the printer for
my next computer system.
The printer also features such
things as bidirectional printing at
120 cps with friction or tractor feed.
The paper may be fed either over the
back of the unit or through the slot
in the bottom. Another feature which
I was looking for was an inexpensive
ribbon. This one uses a standard type-
writer style which can be re-inked.
I chose this interface so that the
special Commodore control characters
are printed (to make listings useful)
and so that graphics can be printed.
The interface substitutes descriptions
for some functions like (<clr>) for
the shift,clear-home function. These
would not be correctly printed on
anything except a Commodore printer.
So in the past 2 hours I have
got the whole deal working and am very
happy. I haven't had a chance to check
out the graphics portion of the
interface operation since the option
is not yet installed in my printer (it
is on order).
The price of the printer in most
computer magazines is about $429, so
when I saw it on sale for $319, I
couldn't resist. The interface goes
for $89 and the graphics option is
$35. I'll let you know how the
graphics interface works if I get a
chance.
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Walker 71108
Hello Fellow Cadets. I would like to
give you a review on the new Keypad
that I bought that is made by Cardco.
It is called Cardkey/1 and it has 16
keys that you can use as a calculator
or define as Basic Commands or any
word or number that you want to use in
programing. The Cardkey/1 plugs into
port 2(the instructions tell you port
1) and it comes with two software prgm
on tape that can be saved to disk for
faster loading. The first program is
KBASIC and is used for defining the
keys to words or numbers. The other
program is called CARD/CALC and turns
your computer into a large calculator
with Memory functions. The contents of
memory is displayed so you do not have
to remember what you had in memory.
There is one thing that I do not like
about it and it was one of the reasons
that I bought it. I wanted it to help
type in the MLX programs that you find
in the Compute's Gazzette and the MLX
program will not work when you are
using the Cardkey/1. I believe the
problem is that they both are stored
in same section of memory. Maybe one
of you Space Cadets can find a way to
move one of them to another section
of memory that is not being used so
we can use the Cardkey for inputing
all those numbers that are listed
in the MLX programs...Let me hear
from you on this. Bottom line-It's OK.