[Coco] Coco and Modern Printers

[Brian]

On 09/14/2012 08:01 PM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
> Too bad the ede1400 IC is EOL'd.
>
> http://www.circuitlab.org/2011/07/circuit-serial-to-parallel-converter.html#axzz26Umw12ux
>
As a side note. If you need a serial to parallel converter chip consider 
the INTERSIL HD6402.
I think it was in HOT COCO as a project. I built one and used it for a 
long time on the CoCo as a serial to parallel printer adapter.


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> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
>
>
> Frank:
>
>          The Raspberry Pi should run the Linux version of Drivewire 3 with
> no problem. It has printer support. (Might be possible to run Drivewire 4,
> depends on RPi's Java capabilities.)
>
>          A credit card sized Drivewire Server!!
>
>          That's one of the first things mine is going to do (if it ever
> gets here!).
>
> --
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
> ------------------------
> In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable.
> Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished?
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