BECK@VUVAXCOM.BITNET (08/23/90)
I have successfully connected a printer to the 9 pin printer port on a Pro 350 guessing the following pin outs Pin 1 - Frame Ground Pin 2 - TXD Pin 3 - RXD Pin 4 - CTS Pin 5 - RTS Pin 6 - DSR Pin 7 - Signal Ground Pin 8 - ? Pin 9 - ? and with a Brother M 1509 and a Panasonic KP 1091 connecting on its serial port Pro printer 1 -> 1 2 -> 3 3 -> 2 6 -> 20 7 -> 7 Bob Beck beck@vuvaxcom
SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) (08/24/90)
In article <Added.kaog4US00Ui3Q_r096@andrew.cmu.edu>, BECK@VUVAXCOM.BITNET writes: > I have successfully connected a printer to the 9 pin printer port on a > Pro 350 guessing the following pin outs > > Pin 8 - ? > Pin 9 - ? > If you connect pins 8 and 9 together, the printer port becomes a standard DEC console port; i.e., when the PDP-11 halts, micro-ODT knows how to talk to the printer port. =============================================================================== Roger Ivie 35 S 300 W Logan, Ut. 84321 (801) 752-8633 ===============================================================================
tmiller@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (08/24/90)
Bob: If you connect pins 8 and 9 together you'll have a console port
on your PRO 350. so, 1 is gnd,2&3 are the same as for the printer, 7 is
grounded, 4, 5 and 6 I can never keep straight but it helps put DSR into TRM
sometimes. Of course you will need a terminal too. I have one cable which
I use as a printer cable and a console port cable because the printer doesn't
use 8 or 9. If you turn the console off while it is plugged in it halts th
-e PRO as if a break were pressed.
Todd Miller
tmiller@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
tmiller@caos.caos.kun.nl