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From: rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: using an old paper-wacker
Message-ID: <5570459@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 90 20:00:02 GMT
References: <10810@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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If you *could* get it to work, you might be very dismayed with the side
effects.  I hooked one up to a 500 (which uses the same HP-IB interface)
many years ago and found that every time I took it off-line or it ran
out of paper, that it spilled everything in the output queue into the
bit bucket:  it's HP-IB and the CIO HP-IB have incompatible views of the
world.  I had to write an interface program that went out and did a
PPOLL on the bus before every line was written to the printer.  If you
don't know what a PPOLL is, and/or aren't familiar with the DIL stuff,
you will probably regret going for this one.

I can pretty well promise you that it would be cheaper to BUY a supported
printer than to get the 2608A working.

Rob