23 May
2013
23 May
'13
12:56 p.m.
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
I would think it would be easy to build a clone. One could use
a microcontroller, of course (Re: recent discussions), but I
don't think it would be tough to use an IM6402 UART and
a 4060-based baud rate generator, and add a bit of logic to
fiddle the handshake lines when a new byte comes in.
-ethan
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:17:50PM +0200, E.
Groenenberg wrote:
Yep. I used to run them all the time. I got one in college because it was
handy for printing out listings on greenbar paper and was a lot more
affordable than a band or chain printer. It probably got the most
time on an LPV11 in my RT-11 box, but it worked great with an
LP8E on my PDP-8 too. I heard it was possible to cobble up a
cable (maybe with an inverter or two?) to use an LA-180 with
the printer output on a DMF-32, but I only read about it, I never
tried it.
After being kept in a corner, I unearthed my LA180
aka DecWriter I.
Just a nitpick: DECprinter I. (The LA30 is the DECwriter I.) Now, I want to
hook it up, so I opened the backpanel to locate the
serial line, only to find out is is not having the converter board
which is an LAXX-NY for EIA signals according to the user guide.
Might not be hard to build a clone?