Printer Questions

[Donald L. Johnson <70524.1023@CompuServe.COM>]

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Friends, I need some info, please.
 
My brother recently acquired, at a school district auction, a
1982-vintage Apple IIe, 2 IBM-type monitors, and 4 dot-matrix
printers, for the princely sum of $3.00 total.  Since I have several
Apple II computers (II+, IIc, IIGS), he asked me to look at what he
had, with an eye to resale values.  I told him that the market for
such equipment was limited, but that the IIe could be made
serviceable
for his home use (he has a 14-year-old daughter who, when she visits
me, makes a bee-line for my IIGS).
 
I only gave the stuff a cursory inspection, but I know the IIe has a
memory/80-column card in the aux. slot, and a single 5.25 Disk ][.
The +/= key cap is missing, and we haven't powered it up, yet, since
the IIe did not come with a power cord, so I don't know if it has the
standard or enhanced chipset.  I'm going to cannibalize my old II+
(which hasn't seen much use in recent years) for a power cord, second
Disk ][, and monitor, and I'm looking through my catalogs for prices
on printer and SCSI cards, 3.5 drives and a controller card, and hard
drives.
 
The monitors are an IBM model 5154001 Enhanced Color Monitor, which I
suspect is an EGA-type, and a Sysdyne MD-12A Monochrome amber
monitor.
Both have the IBM DB-type video connector which makes them unusable
on
the IIe - or does it?
 
 
The printers are:
 
2 Panasonic KX-P1180 and 1 Star NP-10 dot-matrix printers with female
Centronics connectors on the back.  These appear to be parallel
printers, can someone verify that for me?
 
1 HP-2631B wide-carriage heavy-duty dot matrix printer with a DB-25
connector on the back.  This looks, to me, to be a serial printer.
 
Can anyone confirm my suspicions, and/or provide sources of tech
data/manuals for any of these printers (reasonable copying & postage
paid, of course).  And if you have used one or more of these
printers,
which would you recommend we keep?
 
 
I'm going to use my IIc to test the printers, since I have both a
serial cable and a Grappler-C for it, but I want to be more certain
of
what I am working with before I cart my working equipment 50 miles to
my brother's house.
 
Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated.
 
 
Donald L Johnson
70524.1023@Compuserve.com
Visalia, CA.