Re: Sun Sparc station 1+

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From: Aandi Inston
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:38

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dbt3@aber.ac.uk (DOMINIC TRISTRAM) wrote:


>This may not be the correct place to ask but...
>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
>one is parallel, but I have no manuals and no-one at work can
>help, so can anyone help with this? I don't want to send 12V
>serial signals to a 5v parallel printer!

A and B are the serial connections. /dev/ttya and /dev/ttyb.
Some Suns have higher voltage serial (RS432 or some such)
but I think that's the more expensive (£100,000) ones.



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