5 Jul
2010
5 Jul
'10
1:24 p.m.
On 4 Jul 2010 at 13:47, Glen Slick wrote:
It would, if you wanted to connect it straight to the printer. My idea
was a device to let you get the data off the classic machine onto a
modern PC, and then format/print it from there. In which case a slave USB
devie is what is needed.
-tony
It might not take too much to build up something
to do that using an
FTDI FT245R - USB FIFO IC.
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/FT245R.htm
It has a write strobe input and a FIFO full output, which might need
some simple logic to handshake with a standard LPT output. But you
wouldn't have to write any firmware for the USB microcontroller.
Um, I'm confused. The FT245R is a slave device. Would it not
require a host controller to interface to a USB printer? The FT245
ISTR always looks like a communications device.