IBM 5216 printer

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Fri Dec 5 15:40:05 2003

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:52, Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:
> IIRC the IBM DisplayWriter. The cables were thin and came to a non standard
> D sub 9 pin. There was a cut sheet feeder that might plug into the other port.
> It has been a long time.
>
> I think the System 23 also may have connected to that printer also. There
> weren't many IBM daisywheel printers.

If I recall (or old-memory mumbo jumbo, what's the difference) IBM
borrowed the 521x printers from some other system and stuck it on the
Displaywriter project. I vaguely recall something like this said in a
meeting w/IBMers during the MSDOS project. (They were reticent to reveal
proprietary info, but gave me what I needed to get the job done.) The
complexity of the printer protocol was clearly not designed for a "pee
cee" type system.
Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 15:40:05 GMT