28 Dec
2007
28 Dec
'07
7:32 p.m.
On Dec 28, 2007, at 10:05 AM, 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?
I had to smile when I read this. I had an LA180 printer on my first
PDP-11 when I was a teen, back in the mid-1980s. Like so many things
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! from back then, I deeply regret selling it years ago.
And, again like
so many past things, I hope to find another someday.
The LA180 is not a serial device...it is parallel, not terribly
different from a "Centronics" parallel interface. I used an LS11 board
to interface between it and my PDP-11/34a, but I think it can work with
the LP11 also.
I think I have a paper manual for that printer; I will look.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL