From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:02:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1169 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 19 August 2005 Number 1169 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Old Epson Printers : Ed Durrant 2 ISA cards : Alan Duval 3 Re: ISA cards : Ed Durrant 4 Re: ISA cards : Voytek Eymont" 5 Re: Old Epson Printers : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:58:06 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Old Epson Printers If any of you, like me are using older Epson Stylus Color printers because of their OS/2 support and simply because they're well built and last (my Epson Stylus Color 680 is 7 years old and still works perfectly !) - there's a hidden trick from Epson in the hardware. The EEPROM in these systems counts how many times the system has been used and when it hits a certain number, it stops the printer from operating and flashes the two lights on its front panel, which the standard user handbook says is an unknown fault - return to your dealer for repair. In fact the intention is that at this time you are forced to take the printer in to be cleaned and serviced, however with the cost of labour most people will rather buy a new printer which will cost less than the service costs. Good for Epson dealers, bad for the environment ! Often not an option that we OS/2 users have as the new printer probably doesn't have OS/2 drivers. Having done some research on the web, there are some chip resetter programs (both for this EEPROM and for the chips in the ink cartridges if you are someone who refills them - I don't it's too messy). There are purchasable ones and a free one called "SSC Service Utility". Using this and the documentation that comes with what cominations of buttons to press, I was able to bring my old Epson back into an operational mode. The utility unfortunately only runs under Windoze but does support both parrallel port and USB connectivity, so it "should" work from within SVista/2 (I used it from my works WXP laptop for simplicity though), can be obtained from: http://www.ssclg dot com/epsone.shtml Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:42:27 +0000 From: Alan Duval Subject: ISA cards Hi, Does anyone know whether there is such a thintg as an adapter to plug an ISA card into a PCI slot? Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:11:58 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: ISA cards I don't think so as the speed of the interface, for one thing, would be different. There a few (often used for industrial systems) motherboards that still have one or two ISA slots on them though. Cheers/2 Ed. Alan Duval wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know whether there is such a thintg as an adapter to plug > an ISA card into a PCI slot? > > Regards, > > Alan Duval > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:58:29 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: ISA cards >> Hi, >> >> >> Does anyone know whether there is such a thintg as an adapter to plug >> an ISA card into a PCI slot? a benchpress would probably do it... ;>) -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:10:28 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Old Epson Printers On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:58:06 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote: >The utility unfortunately only runs under Windoze but does support both >parrallel port and USB connectivity, so it "should" work from within >SVista/2 (I used it from my works WXP laptop for simplicity though), can >be obtained from: > >http://www.ssclg dot com/epsone.shtml Hi Ed. a) I have an old Win laptop running W98SE - can it run on that? b) I tried the link but it was "page not found" You may have to send us copies or post it somewhere handy like at os2site dot com Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... Fax me no questions and I'll telix you no fibs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------