12 Nov
2000
12 Nov
'00
10:09 a.m.
Alphacom 42 thermal printer very strange plug on this
unit,
anyone know how you power this printer
The AC-Adaptor Model: PI-1000
input: AC 120V 60HZ 33W
output: AC26.8V 1A
Plug-in Class 2 Transformer
For Use With AL 42 Printer
P/N: 101300
Code: 9-83
This is a USA printer and also uses a printer cartridge interface for a specific
computer.
13 Nov
13 Nov
2:16 a.m.
That was back in the day! A half-page thermal printer was LOADS cheaper
than a daisywheel or an impact DM printer.
If I recall, the personality card contains the machine-specific interface
(commodore, Atari, etcetera) as well as rom which allowed printing the
host machine's full graphics character set (all 220+ chars). Useful for
program hardcopy which contains machine code.
You mentioned it has a funny jack. Maybe for Atari 8-bits? They have
this wierd 13pin D shaped molex connector....
The Okidata 'okimate 10' and okimate 20 had a similar scheme to support
the babylon of architectures out there at the time.
I miss Babylon. It was so much more fun than today's PCs.
Regards,
Jeff
In <000601c04d06$021be920$cfa9d9cf(a)earthlink.net>et>, on 11/13/00
at 11:16 AM, "tlujan2" <tlujan2(a)earthlink.net> said:
>Alphacom 42 thermal printer very strange plug on
this unit,
>anyone know how you power this printer
This is a USA printer and also uses a printer cartridge
interface for a
specific computer.
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