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rushthatspeaksWell, 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.
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.
