IBM 4216-020 printers?

From: John Ott <jott_at_saturn.ee.nd.edu>
Date: Wed Dec 15 09:57:01 1999

Hello -

I have 2 LaserPrinter Font Cards (p/n 1255806) you may have for shipping
if they'll work.

Typeface Pitch Point FGID
Orator Bold 6.5 18 435
Orator Bold 8.1 16 434
Orator 10 14 005

john
In-Reply-To: <19991214201001.B25956_at_mrbill.net>; from mrbill_at_mrbill.net on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:10:01PM -0600

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:10:01PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Anybody know anything about these? I just picked up six of them for
> $25 , with two fuser units and no toner carts, and a "4216 Personal
> Pageprinter Technical Reference". Five of the printers have a strange
> 15-pin D-sub connector that resembles an AUI or PC joystick port, with
> a set of DIP switches beside it. The sixth has normal serial/parallel
> interface connectors. None of these printers have ever been used; some
> are still in the original plastic "bag" wrappings. They date from around
> 1988.
>
> My question is - whats the strange 15-pin interface, and do I have any
> chance of hooking it to a PC or similar machine ? I got these so cheap
> because the guy who had them was going to toss them, and I hate to see
> stuff get tossed. Hopefully they'll turn into something useful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford * mrbill_at_mrbill.net / http://www.mrbill.net
> mrbill_at_sunhelp.org / http://www.sunhelp.org
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using
> Windows NT for mission-critical applications."
> -- What Yoda *meant* to say

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