Facit 4070 to PC interface

[Curious Marc]

I have one of these Facit too waiting to be restored. I'd be interested in your program.
Marc

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> On May 5, 2016, at 7:40 PM, Tom Watson <tsw-cc at johana.com> wrote:
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> Request for information about a Facit 4070.
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> Yes, it can be hooked up to a parallel port interface.  It takes a single 74LS00 chip to generate the proper signals, and the ACK signals.  I did it in a simple jumper wire block (it has a male and female connector along with a jumper field.
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> At the moment I have lost my documentation, but I have a working unit ready to be dissected to produce the proper diagram (it may take a while).  I have connected it to a "real" and a USB parallel port and used direct writes to the parallel port device under Linux with no modification.
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> Also if you are interested, I have a program that sends out block letters to be punched on the tape (along with leader).  The letters are 5x7 and the 8th is the descender for lower case letters.
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> The various docs for the 4070 are on Bitsavers, and you want to be sure that the "option" board just has jumpers on it (as it comes from the factory).