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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Help hooking Daisy Wheel Printer II to IBM pc
Keywords: Daisy-Wheel printer
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.155703.19465@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 Sep 90 15:57:03 GMT
References: <2134@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM>
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <2134@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM> rmackenz@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Robert Mackenzie) writes:
>At our church, we have a Daisy Wheel II printer connected to a TRS80 
>Model III.  Recently, we acquired an IBM compatible pc and we wish to
>use the printer on both systems.  Does anyone know how to hook the Daisy
>Wheel printer to the pc, or even if it is possible? 

Physically, it should just require a parallel cable (the normal IBM PC
type).  However, you probably won't be able to use it directly from
DOS.  You will need to use programs that have a driver especially for
this printer or that allow you to build your own driver.  The problems
under MSDOS will be (a) the printer does both a carriage return and
linefeed when it receives a linefeed (if it's a IIb there should be a
control code you can send to control this), and (b) it doesn't understand
formfeeds. 

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us