Conecting new printer to a 286

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Glen Slick wrote:

Classic comp paralell->USB serial.

> It might not take too much to build up something to do that using an
> FTDI FT245R - USB FIFO IC.
> 
> http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/FT245R.htm
> 
> It has a write strobe input and a FIFO full output, which might need
> some simple logic to handshake with a standard LPT output.  But you
> wouldn't have to write any firmware for the USB microcontroller.

Indeed it should be pretty easy to use one of these it's pretty easy to 
interface too, I have done so with a Dragon / CoCo. Plus they do them in 
  experementer friendly modules too DIP28 (or 24 can't exactly remember) 
pinout as well.

Cheers.

Phill.

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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

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