On 11/09/2016 09:36 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
Was a Dataproducts interface ever offered for the
MX-80? Back in
the day, it was almost as popular as Centronics on mid-sized
systems.
Was that the one that was fairly similar to Centronics but with some
signals inverted?
Yes--and IIRC, it used a 50-conductor connection as well. We had some
big CDC OEM line printers in the mid 1980s that could be configured for
either interface. Before that, in about 1975 we had a Diablo dot-matrix
printer (a strange, very loud beast) that used the DP interface. (ISTR
that it also used three Rockwell PPS-8s). Memory grows dim with each
passing year.
--Chuck