How about this? http://www.amazon.com/Type-Male-Centronics-CN36-Printer/dp/B000I996M6
On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Martin wrote: > >> For me the best are the old dot-matrix with the serial connection. > > I've never seen an old dot-matrix with a serial connection. > > For use with the Color Computer, I had a DIN4 serial port (RS232) connected > to a box that would reframe the data in 8-bit packets. The box was connected > to the printer directly by a Centronics36 cable. That was something made by > hand, by the owner of a small computer shop in the 80's. Otherwise, I was > limited to printers that supported DIN4, which were a 4-pen plotter and a > 75-dpi CMYK inkjet (!!!). > > When I connected dot-matrix printers to PC computers, it was using a > DB25-to-Centronics36 cable, which was the normal way to do so. > > I'm sure that there were RS232 dot matrix printers at one point, but they > were not common. > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC -------- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com robotcowboy.com
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