first step getting VAX 6000-400 booted ... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Oct 2001

This is easy...

LAV-11 with DMF32 cab kit.  The latter is needed for the correct
connector.
I did this the first time in 1984 after being told you cant connect a
LP25
(Dataproducts I/F) to an 11/23...  The bet was $1, I won.  I still have
that
LAV-11 and the 11/23.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: first step getting VAX 6000-400 booted ...

...
 > I'm not Antonio or Allison, but I can answer
this question.  The "Data Products"
...
 > parallel port works with printers with a
"Data Products" parallel interface.  I've
...
 > used a couple of different printers with this
interface.  It's been a while so I
...
 > can't remember the official name of the
interface.  The printers I used were made
...
   by Data
Products and OEMed to other manufacturers (including DEC). 
IIRC, the Data Products interface is pretty similar to Centronics. I am
working from a dim memory here, but it's something like either the strobe
...
 or busy/ready, or both need to be inverted to link a
Centronics printer
to a Data Products host interface. You'll have to get the pinouts and
match up signals, of course, but generally it can be got to work with
only a couple of inverters.

-tony 