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|} This cartridge is your entry into word processing.You can add equipment as your budget allows.You can addBeynd Beyond the console and this cartridge your biggest expense will bea printer. Almost any kind will do: thermal, daisy wheel, dotmatrix, ink jet, pen plotter, or laser. You will need aconnecting cord with a plug on one end that fits into the back ofyour printer. The other end must have a plug which fits anaccessory called an interface; the interface plugs into the rightside of the console. Printers are either Parallel or Serial.Many printers (even the least expensive) have both kinds ofinputs. If you have a choice I suggest using Parallel; this freesyour computer to also use a modem, which is serial. Buy thecorrect cord when you buy your printer. Computer repair shops canmake you a cord; they need to know the wiring diagram, which youcan get from TI.
The Plus version of WORDWRITER lets you connect a printer directly
to the WORDWRITER cartridge. The cord goes from the cartridge