[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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