[Coco] printer ribbons

[Boisy Pitre]

Frank,

This is definitely possible.  A daemon could be easily written to  
monitor a serial port on the Linux box.  This serial port would be  
connected to the CoCo via the bitbanger.  Doing a PRINT #-2 on the  
CoCo in BASIC or echoing output to the /p device under NitrOS-9 would  
put the output to the bitbanger, and that would be captured by the  
daemon on the Linux box, which would forward that data onto a printer  
on the Linux system.

Boisy

On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:


>

> Not sure if it's considered good form to respond to my own post but  

> since

> making the original post I'm starting to think that better then  

> conecting

> a printer to my coco I could conect the printer port on my coco to  

> the serial

> port on my PC running linux. I would capture the output of the  

> "printer" with

> something like minicom which I could later print my laser. Has any  

> Linux user

> actually done this yet?

>

> Do to a recent reorginization<SP?> my coco and related hardware is  

> once again loaded

> in boxes. This time I won't wait 15 years to dig it all back out  

> again. :-)

>

> Frank

>

>

>

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:54:55PM -0600, Frank Pittel wrote:

>>

>> I've been looking at adding a printer to my coco collection.  

>> Unfortunatly

>> all the printers that will work with my coco needs ribbons that  

>> are getting

>> harder and harder to get. Does anyone know of a secret source of  

>> ribbons??

>>

>> Frank

>>

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