Two Stop Bits | The Retro-Printer Module

nickt 239 days ago
I remember seeing this a while ago, and my memory was jogged when reading this thread about Timex / Sinclair printers on the ZX World forums.
https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=3589
zxm 238 days ago
in the 80s we used an interfaker to connect parallel ports to a serial port to capture data from cpm and non dos computers that otherwise could not transfer data to a pc.
https://live.staticflickr.com/4155/34580317352_3b87d19630_b....
- nickt 238 days ago
  Thats neat, never come across anything like that before.
  - zxm 238 days ago
    i've only ever seen them twice. one my boss had and 1 on site at a engineers office.
    one of those obscure pieces of hardware around before the internet and apart from a few photos on auction sites doesn't exist online.
    https://www.tzsupplies.com/modular-technology-mt25-iv-interf.../
    and a 1 page pdf of the manual. https://docs.rs-online.com/e9af/0900766b8001aeab.pdf