11 Apr
2006
11 Apr
'06
3:57 a.m.
In message <E1FT04D-00010p-00 at xmission.xmission.com>
Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
I get the impression that ASR-33s don't become
available too often
anymore and when they do become available, people attack them like
sharks in a pool of chum :-).
Noisy, power hungry and a pig to wire up to anything more modern than a
KIM-1. Yeah, that's the ticket :P
I've got a little board kicking around somewhere that converts an RS232 line
into a parallel printer port and a PC keyboard port. A homebrew printing
terminal, in other words. I used it with an Epson LX80 a while back, but I
don't know what I did with the board after that. The schematics are on a
scrap of paper somewhere and the firmware should be on one of my 'spare'
HDDs.
I probably should take a look at the Citizen 120D+ that's sitting in a
cupboard.. ISTR it needs a new interface connector on the printer and
probably the same on the interface cartridge too. Problem being it looks like
a DIN41612 (Eurocard) connector, but it's 30 way AB style dual-row - the only
Eurocard connectors I've seen in that style are 32 and 64 pins, not 30.
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