9 Nov
2016
9 Nov
'16
9:31 p.m.
On 11/09/2016 09:19 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Other intefaces used the Centronics interface in a
more conventional
way. There was an RS232 board with its own microcontroller and buffer
RAM that didn't use the bit-banging functions of the printer
microcontroller. There was an IEEE-488 interface from Epsom (it was a
load of TTL from what I recall). And HP made an HPIL interface board
to go there (microcontroller and 1LB3 chip).
Was a Dataproducts interface ever offered for the MX-80? Back in the
day, it was almost as popular as Centronics on mid-sized systems.
Now, of course, few people remember it.
--Chuck