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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Does the Apple Imagewriter II speak plain ASCII?
Message-ID: <7587@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 90 19:50:59 GMT
References: <3084@epiwrl.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <3084@epiwrl.EPI.COM> parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker) writes:
>Can someone confirm
>that the Apple Imagewriter II printer can be used a plain generic ascii
>printer with a non Apple system?

Provided a person can get the appropriate cables, I believe an
imagewriter can be used like any other serial printer on the
market.  The cables to connect a 25 pin rs232 port from the
ibm to the imagewriter are no doubt out there, but might not be 
terribly easy to come by.