[GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

[James Knott]

On 2020-06-01 10:14 AM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> At that time, interoperability with printers and Linux was very much
> fraught with troubles.  Those were the days of WinModems and
> WinPrinters where Microsoft was trying to capture market by
> making sure that lots of devices would ONLY talk to Windows(tm)

Back in those days, I was running OS/2 and knew enough to avoid those 
Winmodems and printers.

BTW, I also had a FAX modem, so I faxed myself a sheet that I signed 
several times.  I could then paste my signature on documents which would 
then be faxed out again.  Back then I was using Faxworks and Post Road 
Mailer, which worked very well together, for handling faxes & email.  
For example, I could fax to email or a received fax could automagically 
be emailed out.  Or a received email could be sent out via fax.  I 
essentially had a fax server.  This was way back in the mid - late 90's.

There were a lot of things that could be done in OS/2 that I have not 
seen elsewhere.