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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Atari 1027 printer on an ST?
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Date: 21 Aug 90 18:36:08 GMT
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In article <38218@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) writes:
%>I just recently was given an atari 1027 printer, and would like to
%>know if it is possible to hook the beast to my ST?  I realize that 
%>it may require building some sort of adapter so the st can talk to 
%>the SIO port on the printer.  Has anyone ever attempted such a thing?
%>Is it possible to do? 

%If you can do this, I'd like to know how.  There are a lot of cheap 1020
%printer/plotters out there just waiting to be hooked up to STs.  I have
%some possible uses for the color output, and I'm sure others do too.

%My Atari BASIC Biorhythm program from the June 1986 ANTIC would be nice 
%with plotted output.  :-)  (Any of you remember that?)
%
%Perhaps a driver for the Xlator cable would work?

I remember articles for hooking up regular RS232 devices to the SIO bus,
so it should be possible to drive an SIO device off an RS232 port as well.
I even have an old 1020 I could play with (if I replaced the %$#%$%^$
broken plastic gears first!) but don't remember enough about SIO drivers.

Yeah, at 100dpi the 1020 wouldn't be such a bad output device. Mebbe I'll
try to resurrect it. The SIO bus runs at 19200bps, right?
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