Jjb
01-15-2000, 10:18 PM
Hello,
I recently got a printer for this old 486 of mine, it's a cosmowriter 2600, (it's ok you can laugh :-) ), it's an old typewriter style printer, (got a good deal, was free.) it prints fine under ms-dos/ms-dos box, but printing under windows 98, (using the text only/gerneric driver) is another story, either the printing head just moves from the home position to center and back again, or just goes wacko, now ... if i turn off the turbo button on the pc, it prints fine ... so i assume windows is sending the text to quickly, is there a registry/ini hack/tweak obscure settng (ive tried everything i could think of in the printer folder) that can solve this? ... (i would just use a serial cable for the printer, but this machine doesn't have any free com ports)
Complete spec's of system
HOLCO HOT-409 VLB motherboard, 486DX2 66MHz, overclocked to 80MHz, 32mb of ram (8x 4mb 30pin), 3.2 gig, and 8.4gig HDs, (both using ontrack disk overlay to overcome bios limition), 40x CD, 2x 1.44mb drives, Diamond Stealth 2mb VLB, SB Pro, ZOOM 56k, SIIG i/o with vlb primary ide controller.
Running Windows 98, (and quite well for a 486 might i add :-) )
-Jjb
I recently got a printer for this old 486 of mine, it's a cosmowriter 2600, (it's ok you can laugh :-) ), it's an old typewriter style printer, (got a good deal, was free.) it prints fine under ms-dos/ms-dos box, but printing under windows 98, (using the text only/gerneric driver) is another story, either the printing head just moves from the home position to center and back again, or just goes wacko, now ... if i turn off the turbo button on the pc, it prints fine ... so i assume windows is sending the text to quickly, is there a registry/ini hack/tweak obscure settng (ive tried everything i could think of in the printer folder) that can solve this? ... (i would just use a serial cable for the printer, but this machine doesn't have any free com ports)
Complete spec's of system
HOLCO HOT-409 VLB motherboard, 486DX2 66MHz, overclocked to 80MHz, 32mb of ram (8x 4mb 30pin), 3.2 gig, and 8.4gig HDs, (both using ontrack disk overlay to overcome bios limition), 40x CD, 2x 1.44mb drives, Diamond Stealth 2mb VLB, SB Pro, ZOOM 56k, SIIG i/o with vlb primary ide controller.
Running Windows 98, (and quite well for a 486 might i add :-) )
-Jjb