Laser printer controllers (was: Answers (was: Bet you can't Name that connector...

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Aug 30 19:16:22 2001

> > To make use of the first hint (DB25 and DC37 cabled to a switch box), you
> > would have to consider what kinds of things used DB25 and DC37
> > interchangeably. There was no parallel printer. But to do desktop
> > publishing, there would usually be a printer. The first two cards were
> > both controllers for CX laser printer. One was a JLaser Plus, which used
> > a DB25 female cabled to the CX engine (in this case through a switch box),
> > and had a DE9 female for scanner.

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> I feel _very_ stupid... I should have got this. Not only do I remember
> that interface, I am also one of the few people here who's converted an
> old LBP8A1 into a CX-VDO, has hacked the printer engine, and has debugged
> the PERQ Canon CX interface card. Oh well...


Well, ...
I have available:

2? Cordata (aka Corona Data Systems) controllers for connection to CX
mechanism (CXVDO) They have their own easy page description
language/formatting codes, and their own fonts that are supported by the
Poems Font Editor, which will also convert HP soft fonts. Early versions
of XenoFont will work with it for doing text screen printouts (as used in
many Sybex books), The Cordata controller software that I have with them
refuses to run on 286 or above!

1 Eiconscript controller for laser engines. Includes emulation of
Postscript and emulation of HP PCL. Will work on 286 and above.

Lots of Jlaser. (a few totes full) Have sockets for "lots" of memory.
Some (Jlaser PLUS) have provision for driving Canon IX12 scanner, in
addition to the laser printer. Some others have disk controllers,
parallel ports, etc. in addition. Can be used with CX, or SX (special
adapter required?), and can be configured (on SX?) to still permit
parallel and serial operatiuon.


I've already sold off the CX engines, but the fellow who got them might
bwe willing to part with a few.


> Seriously, I am prepared to donate any prize that I may have won to
> somebody who is going to use the floppies. Rather than just have them
> sitting on the shelf for the rest of time...

I think that the contest was entirely hypothetical, and I really don't
think that anybody ever actually had the diskettes available for the
prize. Except maybe Sellam, who might want to do some sort of contest at
VCF,

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Thu Aug 30 2001 - 19:16:22 BST

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