rbt@tous.uucp (Robert B. Tate) (07/13/90)
In article <25822@unix.cis.pitt.edu> fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes: > > Greetings. I got a printer at a swap-fest with no info > what-so-ever + it was broken. I fixed it (the PS blew) > but have no documentation at all. > > The printer: > > Integral Data Systems 440 > Paper Tiger Printer Model # 440 > > It has a db-25 connector and a patch for an Apple II > 20 pin header, ribbon cable. > > 1) Is it parallel or serial? > 2) There are 2 dip switches, what do they do. > I guess I could play around, but... > > Thank you for any replies. > > Take care and have fun (in that order :-) > > P.S. Why such a large distribution? Because the printer > was made in 78-79's and it can run off 220V 50Hz.. so > someone in Europe or elsewhere might have one. > .....I used to have a IDS-125 and worked on a friends Paper Tiger (in the long dark past). I can't find my notes on them from back then, but I remember that both serial and parallel is in the connector AS WELL AS some power direct from the power supply. This last cost me an interface one time because I used a ribbon cable with all 25 wires in it. Mail me if you don't find out anything on the Switch's, etc. and I will try to dig out the old notes. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ rbt@tous.UUCP Robert B. Tate | This space left blank. {ucf-cs,peora,uunet}!tarpit!tous!rbt | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.) (07/16/90)
I have an IDS-560 at home, with manual! Write me directly if you need the pinouts. The db25 is configured internally for parallel or serial. I think the 440 is the narrow-carriage version of the 560. Regards, -- -- James Dugal, N5KNX Internet: jpd@usl.edu Associate Director Ham packet: n5knx@k5arh Computing Center US Mail: PO Box 42770 Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Southwestern LA. Tel. 318-231-6417 U.S.A.
fritz@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Frederick Herrmann) (07/17/90)
In article <11597@rouge.usl.edu> jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.) writes: >I have an IDS-560 at home, with manual! Write me directly if you >need the pinouts. The db25 is configured internally for parallel or >serial. I think the 440 is the narrow-carriage version of the 560. Actually, the 460 is the narrow carriage version of the 560. As I recall, 440 looks just like the 460 but doesn't have the same graphics capabilities. I think the software controls were different between 440 and (4,5)60. I don't know if the pinouts are the same. In any case, Integral Data Systems is now Data Products, in NH someplace (call information). They were very helpful when I had trouble with my 460 a few years back. - Fritz fritz@caf.mit.edu
ornat@ornat.cs.unc.edu (Steven Ornat) (11/09/90)
Someone out in the net has run into this problem before so please help me. I want to put a parallel printer on a Apple //e clone (Laser 128) and I need to know how to make that cable. The Laser has a female DB-15 on the back panel and the printer is a normal IBM type printer. The cable would be a DB-15 to a centronics connector. If someone knows what each pin on the DB-15 connector is for, I do have the manual on the printer so I can figure out what goes to where. Thanks -- SteveO ############################################################################# Steven M. Ornat The University of North Carolina Department of Computer Science Telephone: (919) 962-1818 CB # 3175, Sitterson Hall Fax: (919) 962-1799 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 Internet: ornat@cs.unc.edu #############################################################################