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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: HP ThinkJet and DEC LA-50
Message-ID: <37820@cup.portal.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 09:17:37 GMT
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koz@frog.UUCP (Koz Egersheim) in <22504@frog.UUCP> writes:

	I have recently come up on an HP ThinkJet Printer. The d____ thing
	has the HP-IB (surpossedly = GP-IB IEEEE-488) interface.  This means
	that it has a 24 (twenty-four, no mis-print) pin Centronics style
	connector that needs to connect to my Amiga 1000 (I hope). 

	Has anyone done this?  What is the pin-tp-pin scheme?
	Will it work?  What printer driver did you use?

The HP-IB (aka IEEE-488) bus requires an interface and protocol converter to
function on the Amiga; you will NOT be able to simply "map" the signal pinnings
to the Amiga's parallel port along the lines it appears you're thinking (thus
I haven't included the HP-IB pinouts).

ASDG does produce an IEEE-488 interface card for the Amiga, and maybe (by now)
some other 3rd party mfrs do, too.

You can probably find ASDG's address/phone# in some of the Amiga-related mags,
though I do recall seeing a recent post by Perry Kivolowitz (of ASDG) in
comp.sys.amiga.misc recently, so you may want to "grep" for "perry" to find
his email address.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]