Re: Mac and Printer

Lance Eggleston (legglest@buffnet.net)
Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:41:27 EDT

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Pat Atkinson
La Grande School District
>Is it possible to use one of the earliest Apple IIe printers
>with an LC5200? If so, do I need to load additional printer
>drivers? Also what type of cable do I need? This is the square
>box type of printer that was first sold with the Apple IIe's,
>prior to Imagewriters. Thanks

** Prior to Imagewriters was the Apple dot matrix, a parallel printer. The
Mac has a serial port for the printer. There would have to be some method
to convert a serial data stream into a parallel data stream. I know of no
device which can do this. **

lance

Lance Eggleston
Director of Instructional Technology
Hamburg Central Schools
5305 Abbott Road
Hamburg NY 14075 USA
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