A new life for my LA180.

[E. Groenenberg]

On Sun, January 22, 2017 16:59, william degnan wrote:
> If you have time can you post the simh info, what steps you took to
> connect
> to the printer from os/8?
>
> Bill Degnan
> twitter: billdeg
> vintagecomputer.net

Hi.

I'm not familiar with OS/8, but what I do for RSX-11M is to attach a
Unix serial line to a DZ11 line and within RSX I have a printer queue
which uses that DZ11 line for output.

What I need to try as well is to use the simh lpt device and see if
that will also work. I guess 'att lpt /dev/tty05' could do the trick.

Ed

> On Jan 22, 2017 2:25 AM, "Paul Anderson" <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congrats!!
>>
>> The LA180 is probably my favorite DEC printer.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 1:00 PM, E. Groenenberg <ed at groenenberg.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Not so much newsworthy, but 2 weeks ago I stumbled by accident on the
>> > serial option for the LA180 (Decprinter I). My offer was accepted and
>> I
>> > got the card 2 days ago. I installed it this afternoon and after
>> > configuring
>> > it and checking the jumpers on the main board, it now works as a
>> serial
>> > printer.
>> >
>> > Tomorrow I'm going to connect it with simh and see if printing jobs
>> > will get processed as well.
>> >
>> > Ed
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>> >
>> >
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>

Ed
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