IBM ProPrinter XL Configs

[jgm@xxxxxxx]

Jera wrote:


MI>I have gotten my hands on an IBM Proprinter XL for almost
MI>nothing recently at an auction.  And, as luck would have
MI>it, no documentation.

(some comments removed)

MI>All my combinations have produced something akin to
MI>speaking in tongues!  Either that or a very good
MI>indication of why I got the machine for 'almost nothing'.

MI>Any suggestions?

MI>TIA,
MI>Jera Anderson
MI>IS MANAGER

Jesse McKay replies:

The IBM Proprinter XL is a member of that second group of obsolete
machines: those that you do not want, even for free.

This particular machine is cursed with a very expensive ribbon, which if
you are lucky, will last you between 50-100 pages; prints text only, and
is not particularly good at that; doesn't have a twinax connect, so it
ties up a perfectly good terminal's printer port; and it isn't just a
bad midrange computer printer, it also sucks as a PC printer (not that
bad for DOS text output, but who cares.)

The wide carriage seems appealing, but on balance this machine is a
loser.  My advice is simply to dump it, but make sure that it is
irreparably broken first, so that Dracula does not take yet another
victim...

Sincerely,

Jesse McKay
E-mail: jgm@nak.com
"System/36 And Beyond!"


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