28 Dec
2007
28 Dec
'07
8:19 p.m.
At 10:05 AM 12/28/2007, Henk Gooijen wrote:
The seasonal holidays give me time to play around a bit ...
I wanted to connect my DECprinter I (that's an LA180) but
I could not find any documentation here at home, neither
on the web! Can somebody who knows or has an LA180
connected tell me how it is hooked to a serial line?
Or point me to an LA180 user's manual on the web?
You've gotten some replies already that were mostly correct - the
*base* LA180 is a parallel printer.
If you look at the fold-down door that has the logic card, it has four
threaded posts that are designed to mount the LAXX-NW or LAXX-NX serial
converter cards. (The -NW is EIA RS232, the -NX is current loop). If
you've got two cards mounted on the back door, you have a serial printer.
The LA180 is a workhorse. I ran hundreds of boxes of paper through one
that had been dropped off a truck - the plastic cover was badly cracked
but it ran forever that way.
I've got the LA180 maintenance manual. Prints, mechanical drawings, and
logic description. If anyone can get it onto one of the archives,
they're welcome to it.
-Rick
From my guess, the BERG header is
"standard" as on M7800
DL11's or M7856 DL11-W, SLU's (with the
appropriate lugs
either RS-232 or 20 mA current loop), but I would rather be
assured than destroying a very nice printer!
thanks,
Henk