Re: Jumpers
Or in the case of the DIP switches on dot-matrix printers, spent hours changing them and printing the full character set and some lines of text ending with various combinations of [LF], [CR] and [CR] [LF] only to find that none of them seemed to make a blind bit of difference ..... took me a good while to twig that the machine only bothers to read the DIP switches when it's first switched on, and then proceeds studiously to ignore the living daylights out of them .....
In fairness to the manufacturer of the printer concerned, this fact might have been mentioned in the manual which I did not have, which was why I was pulling this crazy stunt in the first place .....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
