[Coco] printer ribbons

[Frank Pittel]

Boisy,

It looks like I'm going to be spending some time learning how to
read data from a serial port within Linux over the next few weeks.
To be honest with you I'd rather have the software running on the
Linux box simply write the data coming from my coco to a file. This
way I can look at it or print it as I see fit. My biggest motivation
is for use with edtasm. The only way I can see to read the output for
more then the most trivial of programs is to assemble with the "output"
going to the printer. In most cases I don't really want to print the
output. :-)

Frank



On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:24:32PM -0600, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> 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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