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Subject: 80286's and Apple Imagewriter's
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 01:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 01:00:00 1987
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In article <8000018@uiucdcsm> reed@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu:

>This problem is either really simple (implying I'm dumb - highly likely)
>or its hard (which I doubt).  I'm trying to connect an Apple Imagewriter II
>to an IBM PS/2 Model 80.  Because the Imagewriter II is a serial printer,
>I dutifully connected an Apple IIe 8pin <-> RS-232 DB25 cable to the printer
>and the serial port of the PC.  This is the cable used to connect a IIe to
>an ImagewriterII.  I then incanted
>
>                mode com1:9600,n,8,1,p
>                mode lpt1:=com1
>
>and tried to print.  Print reports that the printer is offline.  Now
>either I've cabled it incorrectly, or I'm forgetting some command sequence.
>By the way, the ImagewriterII DIP switches are still at the factory settings.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Daniel Reed
>Department of Computer Science
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>USENET:         ...!{pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!reed
>Internet:       reed@a.cs.uiuc.edu

This sounds a lot like a problem that has been plagueing us for a while.  We
can get true blue PC's (8088's) to talk to ImageWriter's, but not to PC AT
Clones (80286's).  If anybody has any info on this topic, I would be grateful
if you could relate them to me and I would guess that the info would also be
appreciated by other people on the net.


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