[net.micro.pc] TTY 5420 --> HP Thinkjet ?

marcy@homxa.UUCP (M.COHEN) (02/21/85)

I am interested in hooking up an HP Thinkjet printer to the auxiliary  
serial port on a Teletype 5420 terminal, having heard that this printer 
may be purchased with a serial interface.  The Thinkjet product literature,
however, describes three interfaces:

	1)	Centronics parallel (standard IBM-PC --> printer)
	2)	HP-IB               (HP's version of IEEE 488)
and
	3)	HP-IL ??

Is HP-IL HP's way of saying serial RS232-C or does this printer not 
support such an interface?  If anyone has experience or information on 
this subject, please respond via phone or mail.

		Thank you,

                      Marc Cohen
                      AT&T Bell Labs, room 2G427A
                      Holmdel, NJ
                      ...houxm!homxa!marcy
                      (201) 949-5244

marcy@homxa.UUCP (M.COHEN) (02/27/85)

Thanks to all those who responded to my question about a serial
interface for the HP Thinkjet printer.  The answer is no, the
Thinkjet is not (yet) offered with a serial interface.  It may 
be purchased with the following interfaces: Centronics, HP-IB,
and HP-IL, which I have been told is a Hewlett Packard proprietary 
interface (not RS232-C as I had speculated).  Some people said
they had heard rumors about possible introduction of a serial
interface in the short term,and one respondant from Teletype
Corp. even had a prototype version, however, no one had any
real info on when such a product might be offered.  

                      Marc Cohen
                      AT&T Bell Labs, room 2G427A
                      Holmdel, NJ
                      ...houxm!homxa!marcy
                      (201) 949-5244