[Coco] Big Blue Thermal Printer

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making the printer cable: would this possibly work:
coco                db25
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2                     20
3                      7
4                      2

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Coco] Big Blue Thermal Printer
> From: coco at yourdvd.net
> Date: Fri, April 20, 2007 11:21 am
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> 
> I just bought a Big Blue Thermal printer 0ff of eBay. Now I had one of
> these a long time ago and it had a weird serial connector such as I
> think was used on the pcjr. Now it vanished along with my coco stuff
> some time ago. However, I was elated to find another, brand new in the
> box for 85 cents plus $9 shipping. It uses fax paper and is ibm
> graphic printer compatible. this is only the second one i've ever seen
> on ebay. however, this one has a db-25 connector apparently made for
> someone other than the one for the pcjr, even though it's the same
> printer. it is 1200 baud serial. Does anyone still sell coco 4 pin to
> db-25 connectors? this thing is a massive 1200 baud. I'll never have
> to buy ink - yeah! anyway, if i have to i can make the cable. in the
> meantime, i am just going to plug it into my deluxe rs-232 program pak
> and write a routine to intercept the printer ram hook. this should do
> nicely, but i'd rather hook it to the coco's bitbanger. -r -- Coco
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