In your article “Reviewing Two Printers“, SUM Apr11 ’86, you asked for information on the serial port of the Zebra Disk Drive after referring to TASWORD Il output to that RS-232 serial port.
I have been using that port since last October ’85 along with TASWORD II and a Radio Shack serial printer. The “key” was the “Interface Control Codes” as accessed from TASWORD II program menu:
Interface control Code 1 = 0
Code 2 = 0
Code 3 = 0
Code 4 = 57855
The codes will get one off and running assuming the correct formatting of CHANNEL A is accomplished to agree with whatever printer is being used and the TOS LPRINT CODE has also been loaded. I would suggest an insert to line 15 of TASWORD II. After the command LOAD *”tasword.cod”CODE: add this or similar commands pertaining to your setup:
LOAD"lprint.cod"CODE 23297: FOR n=23322 TO 23325: POKE n,0: NEXT n: RANDOMIZE USR 23297: OPEN *#3; ":ch_a";o: CLS LET a=USR VAL "59081": GO TO VAL "10" I am using the Radio Shack DMP 130 and think that it 1s great, although I had to design my own screen dump program to take the place of the COPY command as used with the TS 2040. My screen dump checks all 45, 045 points on the screen and prints only the INK colored points in graphics mode; total time is four minutes and 15 seconds.
I would appreciate hearing if others have found the same or similar Interface Codes, I sent these codes to Zebra Systems last December in hopes they would give them to their customers.