Conecting new printer to a 286

[MikeS]

> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:52:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> Subject: Re: Conecting new printer to a 286
>
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, MikeS wrote:
>> Seems to me all you'd need is a stock off-the-shelf Parallel>Serial
>> converter feeding into a Serial<>USB converter, no?
>
> AND another PC.
>
> That will work fine for transferring files from a non-USB computer to a
> USB computer.  Although many of the off-the-shelf Parallel>Serial
> converters make assumptions about the computer's parallel port and are not
> always reconfigurable for all.
>
> The original post was about how to connect a 286 computer to a "modern
> printer".
> The 286 machine does not have a USB port.
> Off the shelf Serial<>USB converters will NOT work unless they are
> connected to a computer with USB.  They will NOT work connected to a USB
> printer without a computer that has USB.
> kk
>
>
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Umm, yes, that's all quite obvious but I was commenting on Tony's
suggestion below; considering that most inexpensive "modern printers" can no
longer print ASCII, this is probably the way you'd have to go anyway:

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> Um, I'm confused.  The FT245R is a slave device.  Would it not
> require a host controller to interface to a USB printer?  The FT245
> ISTR always looks like a communications device.

It would, if you wanted to connect it straight to the printer. My idea
was a device to let you get the data off the classic machine onto a
modern PC, and then format/print it from there. In which case a slave USB
device is what is needed.

-tony
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