9 Mar
2008
9 Mar
'08
9:23 p.m.
I have one of these things in the basement. It looks like it has a
parallel port (Centronics) and a serial port on it. It also has 'COPY'
and 'SEL' membrane style buttons on front, and a what looks like a
really weird connector with 10 pins arranged in a 'star like'
configuration on the end of a cable that is directly attached.
From my searching I'm guessing this is a parallel to serial (or
vice-versa) converter marketed by Brother for it's printers. Does
anybody have more details?
Pictures are up on eBay at the moment - there is a recent auction. Item
number is 360028045061 .
Thanks,
Mike
9 Mar
9 Mar
10:58 p.m.
On Sunday 09 March 2008 17:23, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
I have one of these things in the basement. It looks
like it has a
parallel port (Centronics) and a serial port on it. It also has 'COPY'
and 'SEL' membrane style buttons on front, and a what looks like a
really weird connector with 10 pins arranged in a 'star like'
configuration on the end of a cable that is directly attached.
From my searching I'm guessing this is a parallel to serial (or
vice-versa) converter marketed by Brother for it's printers. Does
anybody have more details?
Pictures are up on eBay at the moment - there is a recent auction. Item
number is 360028045061 .
This reminds me of some years ago, a guy brought me a couple of similar
interfaces, though neither one was this number. They were interesting in
that each one had an 8085 CPU and some other LSI stuff in it, I don't recall
what else and don't know if I still have them someplace or not (doubtful).
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11:44 p.m.
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:23:24 -0600
From: mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Brother IF-50?
I have one of these things in the basement. It looks like it has a
parallel port (Centronics) and a serial port on it. It also has 'COPY'
and 'SEL' membrane style buttons on front, and a what looks like a
really weird connector with 10 pins arranged in a 'star like'
configuration on the end of a cable that is directly attached.
From my searching I'm guessing this is a parallel to serial (or
vice-versa) converter marketed by Brother for it's printers. Does
anybody have more details?
Pictures are up on eBay at the moment - there is a recent auction. Item
number is 360028045061 .
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike
I think this is a buffer. I suspect that both connectors are inputs.
The printers had a connector that could be used by a keyboard
or in this case, this buffer. The printer, I still have, has just such a
connector. This most likely allowed one to repeat printouts of the
same page or pages. The select button most likely selects between
serial and parallel inputs.
Dwight
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