3 Oct
2001
3 Oct
'01
11:13 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Geoff Reed wrote:
I've hooked a HPLJ3 up to an old mod 16 (same
chassis at mod 12) IIRC the
RS supplied printer cable was a 34-pin card edge on one end, ribbon cable,
then the centronics style 36 pin at the other. I would bet though that
he's hooked upo to the serial port. mod 12's and 16's used DB25F
connections for their serial.
As did most CP/M machines of the era.
- don
At 06:36 AM 10/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
If he's done the obvious, i.e. hooking the Oki
600e to a serial port he's
going
to have troubles.
If he has the parallel port spec, it MIGHT work, provided the RS model drives
all the signals as the PC does, which I'd guess it doesn't.
I've never even seen a model 12, so I don't know how accessible the driver
is in
the software.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr(a)zipcon.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Model 12 <-> Okidata 600e
> The model 12 should have a parallel port IIRC... it may be a card-edge
> style (it's been a while since i've looked at one)
>
>
> At 08:56 PM 10/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm trying to help a friend of a friend interface an Okidata 600e printer
> >with a Radio Shack Model 12 computer. Any idea if this is possible? He
> >claims to have created an interface cable, but it doesn't work.
> >
> >Robert Matthews
>
>