Date   : Mon, 25 Oct 1982 1520-:00PDT
From   : Jim Moore <MOORE@Usc-Isib>
Subject: Re: Diablo 630 Printer

Rick,

WE are using a 630 on our Northstar & it works just fine.  BUT -- in trying 
to get it to work with Wordstar, there were repeatable, subtle glitches which
just wouldn't go away.  I finally found someone w/ enough smarts to realize
that the 630 isjust too smart for W*!  Aparently, W* demands a sort of total 
control over the printer & some of the smarts of the 630 just got in the way.

The solution was to semi-lobotomize the 630 by removing two of its smarter
chips.  Once this was done, everything worked just fine.  Since we do all of
out printing via wordstar, at least all that requires any funny formatting,
this is just fine & I don't miss the reduced functionality in the hardware,
since the software (W*) does it all.  

(n.b. "out" above = "our".)

I hope this helps.

Jim