Subj : back in business
To   : TOM WALKER
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Mon Dec 27 2004 05:19 pm

-> -> This one I'm looking at doesn't appear to be USB as Best Data 
-> -> appears to indicate this in their naming convention.
-> -> I too want to hang it off my serial port.

-> -> Also limited to USB 1 here but it's not a bother... until I
-> -> replace my printer perhaps.

-> -> www.circuitcity.com
-> -> has the Best Data hardware modem and specifies it's good 
-> -> for 486's on up as well as all flavors Windows AND DOS and Linux.
-> -> Priced at 50 dollars.

-> I don't think using a USB-1 port on a printer should be a prolbem. After
-> all USB-1 is Many times faster than the old Parallel Poert and the
-> printers survive o nthose. Maybe except the Combo Scanner Fax printer
-> models.

Shouldn't be a problem then but I prefer a parallel port
connection and DOS compatability.
I'd never buy a combo unit.

My Cannon BJ-200 inkjet is just about done after 13 years and one of
the two  drive belts that drive the paper advance is gone.
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