1 May
2012
1 May
'12
3:12 p.m.
I freely admit that some further standardization for serial printers would
have helped. I had that printer for months before I finally got ink onto
paper. And, in the USA, I'm aware of a documented homicide over the
frustrations of interfacing serial printers to microcomputers.
It wasn't just the cables either. The connectors were not standard. Even
the
good old DB-25 pin connectors. Case in point, the IBM PC adopting a
male DB-25 on their serial cards where almost every other 8-bit business
computer was using a female one at the computer end. Instead, IBM used the
female one for the parallel printer connection!!
Terry (Tez)