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Dear readers,

if you know of an All-in One-Printer which one can handle on one's own,
please, let me know the brand name.
I would like to handle maintenance and refill cartridges rather in a do it yourself manner, and not buy the original or go to the refill shop.
My current printer refuses refills. it has a built in chip corresponding with cartridges, that prevents them from printing if they are not the original, which makes it rather expensive – in the long run.
I was lucky enough with my HP deskjet 520. but that was so good it is in the range of "they don't make them anymore"
The HP and my laptop do not have an interface, the one being equipped with a USB contact, the other with a centronics cable….

Many thanks to you all in advance,
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Hi,
I agree with the last comment, Canon are one of the best printers and very reliable. take a look here for more info on the best Canon printers allinoneprintersreviews.com/c…
Hope this helps.

I remember it well because I wrote the EasyWriter manual to accompany the word processing program that IBM sold along with that original PC. I first saw the PC in April 1981 after being hired as the “Director of Publications” at Information Unlimited Software, a small software firm in Kensington that IBM contracted to port the software from the Apple II to its as-yet-unannounced PC.

In late 1981, I left the software company and became an editor of PC Magazine in its first year of operation.

IBM’s PC wasn’t the first personal computer. Apple was doing well with its Apple II and RadioShack was on its second generation of personal computers by the time “Big Blue” entered the market. more primitive machines such as the Altair and hand-built computers by the Homebrew computer club were around as early as 1975.

But it wasn’t until IBM threw its hat into the ring that businesses and even most consumers started taking personal computing seriously. Up until then, personal computers were the domain of hobbyists and those willing to live on the “bleeding edge” of technology.

The first PC came standard with 16 kilobytes of memory at a bare-bones price of $1,265 without a monitor or a diskette drive. a full-blown system with 64K of memory, two floppy drives, a display/printer adapter card and a monochrome screen cost $3,735 in 1981 dollars. Adjusting for inflation, that’s $9,275 today.

IBM’s dot-matrix printer and its required cable added another $610 to the price tag for a grand total of $4,345. In November 1981, I wrote an article for PC Magazine called “PC on a Budget,” where I described how to assemble your own PC for “only” $3,399.

To put the power of that early computer into perspective, a modest PC today has at least 4 gigabytes of memory and 160 GB hard drive — more than 65,000 times the memory and a million times the storage of the first PC. Even today’s smartphones have far more memory, storage and processing power than IBM’s entry into the market.

Today, IBM is out of the PC business; its PC division was sold to China-based Lenovo in 2004. Lenovo is now one of the leading makers of laptop PCs with its popular ThinkPad line.

Email? No, overnight it

I actually used an Apple II to write the manual for the PC since there weren’t enough PC prototypes in our office to use. Besides, the programmers were busy writing the word processing software while I was writing the manual. My Apple II had a modem, but for some reason, the IBM development team in Boca Raton, Fla., didn’t.

On many nights, I would drive to San Francisco International Airport to put the manual’s latest draft on an overnight flight so the team could review it in the morning. Delta charged a minimum of $40 ($99.33 in today’s money) for its overnight service.

And unlike the IBM PC, my marriage with Patti is still current.

Larry Magid’s technology column appears Wednesdays in the Daily News. Email him at .

I have a Epson parallel cable printer, want to connect to my laptop in USB port. I have buy the converter cable, but my laptop can't detect. Can anyone tell me how to do?

I have a an old HP laserjet 1100 printer, which I think has an IEEE 1284-compliant bidirectional parallel port, and a very new HP laptop, which doesn't have a parallel port, so I therefore can't connect my printer.

I've just found out that I can buy a USB to DB25 Female Parallel Converter, which would basically give me a new parallel port on my laptop and would solve my problems.

however I don't want to buy this online as I want to bring the cable and laptop in to make sure that it works.

Where can I buy this "USB to DB25 Female Parallel Converter"? I'm in San Diego.

Newegg to the rescue – see the link below for a USB to Parallel cable:

newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

CompUSA probably has them. For San Diego CA see: compusa.com/locations/StoreDe…

Whilst these are available, they don't always work with every printer.
You will probably be ok with HP printer as these tend to work with a standard set of drivers.

I have a cable that connects to my HP DJ970 CSE printer but the hard drive plug-in does not fit the Inspiron 6000 outlet port for the printer. I would appreciate any knowledgable help in this area.

Try a USB port cable connection.

yep USB, or firewire faster

here's more info on your printer and usb:
h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docum…

hi alli have a hp pavillion comp. i just bought hp laserjet3100 but dont have the connection cord from the printer to comp.since it is hp i thought the cords from my other printer would be compatible.its from garage sale so i took it home doesnt use same connection.can i buy a connector with two dif. sizes one size for comp.one size for printer .comp. end is bigger than printers.thanks

is there an adapter you can buy ,just like to know before i get to a store full of salesmen that want to sell me something i dont need.

For the LaserJet 3100 you need an IEEE 1284 compliant parallel cable with a “c” connector. my guess is that any adapter would cost just as much as a cable, so I would buy the standard printer cable.

thanks n8peterson ill give that atry

hello againive hooked up the new cable to this printer it is fax/ copier/scanner.ihave amodem fax combo already installed.do i need to uninstall these first ,i thought i could just plug it in and it would find the drivers and work.not so ,could someone help me through this thanks for any help

Plug the printer power and cable in. Turn it on. then install the software. if you just want to install the drivers, go to start, System, Printers. then, add printer and follow it through. Tell it that you have the drivers, and point the install to the drivers. here is a link to the drivers if you don’t already have them: drivershq.com/newlist/pri…xprinterh.html

thanks n8peterson i dont have a disc ,didnt give me one,since i cant use this except for copying,i think ill end up giving it away.i dont think the guy i bought it from has the disc otherwise he would have given it to me.thanks for your time .