Re: Sun Sparc station 1+

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From: Simon Edgley
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:13

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>This may not be the correct place to ask but...

I believe there is a group for sun hardware users.

>I'm trying to connect a dot-matrix printer to my Sun Sparc 1+
>through a parallel connection. Unfortunatley there are THREE
>female 25-way d connectors on the back - one marked A, another
>B and one unmarked! I would guess that two are serial and
>help, so can anyone help with this?

Suns do not have parallet ports believe it or not. They have never had them as
far as I know. Even sparc20's dont have them!

This is because if you want to communicate with a printer it expects them to be
connected to a network via an ethernet card. This is how modern lasers work.

You can connect a serial printer though. But seeing as you are asking to
connect a parallel printer I guess you don't have one. Sorry!

>I don't want to send 12V
>serial signals to a 5v parallel printer!

Quite!


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