[Coco] Coco and Modern Printers

[Michael Graham]

I've captured text from DECB by constructing a modified version of the 
DW cable and using a terminal program on my PC to capture the printer 
output.  See this web page under 'unidirectional cable':

http://webspace.webring.com/people/vt/theother_bob/PaulDpages/hardware.html

Basically, you just move the CoCo's Pin 2 connection from the PC's Tx 
signal to the PC's DTR signal.



On 9/16/2012 4:00 PM, John Orwen wrote:
> I wasn't aware that DW could print out a text file. Yes from OS9 but 
> not from DECB.  I haven't figured out a way to get Print#-2 or LLISt 
> either one to work with DW under DECB.  Is it possible to save a DECB 
> program as a text file and then copy the text file to OS9 and then 
> print it out as a program listing. Am I imagining something that 
> doesn't exist ?  Or if it does can you please explain the procedure of 
> how to do it ?
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Wolfe
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 10:12 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco and Modern Printers
>
>>
>> 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
>
>
> The DW4 server runs very well on the Raspberry Pi.  Actually it runs
> fine on much, much more limited devices such as the Linksys NSLU2 (a
> device with a 133mhz arm cpu and 32mb ram, compared to the Pi's
> 700mhz/modern cpu and 256mb).   You can also run cups and/or whatever
> printer stuff you need to talk to whichever printer you'd like to use
> on the little guy, so its very well suited for tasks like this.
>
> DW4 emulates an epson FX80 (partially) to render dot matrix output as
> an image or will create plain text output.   You can specify arbitrary
> commands for the server to invoke after an output file is created (and
> pass them the name of that file).  This makes it easy to do things
> like Gene has set up.. in a nutshell you print on the coco like normal
> and it comes out of your modern printer like normal, all
> automagically.
>
> It would be difficult to build anything for $35 that could work nearly
> so nicely for printing alone, much less all the other things DW4 can
> do and all the other things the Pi can do.
>
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