Lou, you are going to be so proud of me!

I hooked up my old HP 4 ML laser printer to my laptop and it works like a champ. If you'll recall, when we first discussed this months ago I was obsessing on the fact that I had used this with my Mac and I wasn't sure how to connect it to the PC. Well, today I popped off that cover where the connectors are and lo and behold there was the parallel cable connector. I went to Wal-Mart and bought the cable, plugged it in and viola! it works great! My PC recognized it immediately, like an old friend, although I don't think they'd ever been formally introduced. I can't believe the toner is still there-- I haven't used this printer in at least six years-- maybe more.

P.S The trip to Wal-Mart was not a total success. The cable was only $12.00, but I bought three pairs of shoes and in all spent as much as I would have on a new printer! Oh well, there's a bit of BB in me, too--

Thanks for your encouragement. If we hadn't had that convo way back when, it probably would never have occurred to me to use this old (and very good) printer.