Re: Laser 128 Parallel Port

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: Ed Eastman wrote:
:
: >Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
: >>     I was just trying to print something from my Laser 128.
Of course, I
: >> need to know what parallel card the laser 128 emulates and
which slot it is
: >> mapped to.
: >
: >It 'emulates' a parallel card in slot 1, the manual states to
select
: >Apple Parallel Card or Epson APL Card from your program.
:
: And one of the neat things is that you can do is send the
: printer output to an ASCII file on the PC when you set up
: the "printer slot".

We did that back in the late 70's to early 80's and beyond
from our NC (numerically controlled) machines to first the
terminals, then to computers. In fact the very early NC op'd
Brigeport Milling machine controls needed the terminal. They
had no display for the programming at all. Was fun having
8-10 machines wired to a switch box which we had to manually
select which machine we were interfacing to, man, those were
the days, weren't they?  8o)

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