Q. I have a Spectrum, Interface 1 and Microdrives, and my wife has just bought a Brother EP22 typewriter. I see this has an RS232 interface - will the Spectrum drive it?

Brian Bull, Camberley, Surrey

A. You should be able to link both devices so long as they have RS232 interfaces. In the case of Interface 1 the interface is distinctly non-standard, so you need an RS232 cable from Sinclair, and generally you need to get the other end of the cable wired up in accordance with the pinout on your printer - check this by looking up the printer pinout and comparing it with the pinout on page 49 of the Interface 1 manual - but Brother interfaces tend to work fine with the Sinclair cable.

Then it's just a matter of your sorting out partity, baud rates etc.