some days I hate technology, she screams onto the Internet

[rushthatspeaks]

Well, final testing proved that my computer no longer has the driver necessary to run my printer. I'll be able to pick up the startup-type CD that should contain that when I go back to Ohio at the end of August. Until then, I have a very expensive paperweight, as I have been unable to locate any drivers on the Net for an HP LaserJet 1100 with a PC. This, of course, made it imperative that Ruth buy a printer, since my printer turns out not to work with her computer either, and she is not writing the second draft of her novel longhand.

She did buy a printer, and a floppy drive for the iBook. Here our troubles really began. The floppy drive was bitchy about installing, and for long and complicated reasons, we wound up with a superfluous professional copy of Mac OS X. If anyone would like to buy it, please comment to that effect. The printer is now working-- mostly-- and the floppy drive eventually consented to install, display files on the computer from disk, and, in fact, translate the copy of one of my short stories that I had written in Wordpad on my computer into the Mac format so I could print it from the iBook. I have therefore printed out that story and submitted a copy of it to Cemetery Dance Magazine, and shall inform people when anything happens. However, no matter what we tried, neither Ruth or I could get the iBook to save anything, including the story it had previously taken from the disk, onto disk. We have AppleWorks 6. Someone please help-- there is very little point to a floppy drive that will not back things up.

Aaaaaargh.

Angst-O-Meter: About seven.

Comments

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could save to the hard drive and drag the file to the disk or will it not let you write to the disk at all?

pk tech-girl

[weirdquark]

My desktop between crashes once refused to save to the hard drive unless I saved it to a floppy first. I suppose this makes you back up your work but it was very strange.

I'll poke it when we visit -- perhaps I can stumble on the solution accidently.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to let us write to the disk at all. For one thing, we can't find the @%&^$ disk to write to it-- we put a disk in, the disk icon appears, we can get stuff off the disk, but as soon we open the word processor the disk icon goes away and cannot be found. I mean, you'd think there'd be a listing somewhere in the 'save to' options of the floppy drive, but no, it isn't there and it isn't on the desktop. Thank you both and yes, Weirdquark, please do look at it when you turn up.
Lila