Larry Byler wrote:
>
> If checkpoint recovery (the ability to quickly and correctly resume printing
> at a specific page following an interruption) is important in your shop, I
> would *strongly* recommend retaining your HP-IB interface, supported or not.
> Similar "recovery" on serial printers is notoriously haphazard and not
> always accurate because the printer does not participate in the recovery
> process, as it does when it is an HP-IB printer.
>
> -Larry "MPE/iX Spoolers 'R' Us" Byler-

Thanks for all the replys to my printer question.

I also have a 7978 6250 bpi tape drive on this same HP-IP interface card.
 Can I continue to use it on the 969/200 also?  I think I remember
reading earlier that I should get a 7980S tape drive with a SCSI
interface.
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Tim Herrin
Director of Administrative Computing
Wingate University
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