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Re: Pro 350 printer port

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From: Roger Ivie
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 19:46
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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.

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