2 Oct
2001
2 Oct
'01
4:56 p.m.
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
2 Oct
2 Oct
6:26 p.m.
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
3 Oct
3 Oct
3:36 a.m.
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
1:37 p.m.
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.
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
>
>
1:37 p.m.
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2:13 p.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
>
>
4 Oct
4 Oct
5:11 a.m.
Geoff Reed skrev:
>As did most CP/M machines of the era.
yup. just looked at my md3... db25f serial connectors.
same with my Suns i
have here... Ibm was just bass ackwards i guess....
Doesn't it just stem from the philosophical problem which microcomputers posed
WRT DTE and DCE (?)?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
3 Oct
3 Oct
10:45 a.m.
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2 Oct
2 Oct
6:41 p.m.
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Robert Matthews 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.
Radio Shack computers (except Coco) work with "Centronics" style parallel
printers. BUT, ... Radio Shack does NOT send LF; it expects the printer
to do an auto LF after CR.
The 12 can also work with a serial printer, IF you are willing to struggle
a little with hardware and software.
--
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