5 Jan
2002
5 Jan
'02
6:58 a.m.
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I'd be VERY interested in knowing WHAT differences
there are. The
26-1401 fits a "standard" 34 pin card edge, just like the floppy drive
(RS had lots of problems with people connecting things to the wrong
port!)
There could be pinout differences that need to be buzzed out.
I'll work on making a list of pinouts when I have some free time. Is there
a comprehensive TRS-80/Tandy info archive somewhere where I can send the
information?
Somebody said that there were different cables for
Non-Tandy printers.
I'd be very interested in more detail on that, since the only
difference that I remember was that RS configured all of their
printers for auto LF after CR, but that they were otherwise completely
interchangeable, and "standard Centronics port".
Several of the Tandy printers used a 4-bit interface, which is not
Centronics compatible. The printers did mostly use the same 36-pin
connector, which caused allot of problems.
-Toth