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From: darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Atari 1027 printer on an ST?
Message-ID: <56862@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 17:56:51 GMT
References: <38218@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <38218@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) writes:
>Newsgroups: poster
>>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? 
>[stuff deleted]
>
>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?


You mean the Xformer Cable? Yes, it supports the 1020 plotter. I have
one myself and have used it to print out stuff on the ST. All you have
to do is run the Xformer 130XE emulator and run your Biorhythm program
directly on the ST with theplotter hooked up, and you should get the
printout you want.

- Darek

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