On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
> Sellam writes about the IBM System/23:
> > I think the real trick will be determining whether or not this has a
> > serial port. If not, I'll have to look into sending it out the printer
> > port.
>
> Don't count on the printer port having the same pinout as anything you've
> ever seen before. I suppose there's a very small chance that it might
> use the same connector and pinout as a PC, but more likely not.
I don't doubt that it is something totally foreign to anything I have
experienced before. That being said, as long as there's documentation
somewhere, I should be able to decode it and use some sort of parallel
interface board, or my 6522 board, to capture the signals on my Apple ][,
process them, and then spit it out the serial port to a PC.
> On the other hand, you should obviously ignore anything I have to say
> about a 5322, since yesterday I was completely wrong about what kind
> of computer it is. (I was foolish to expect IBM to maintain anything
> like a consistent numbering scheme.)
It was a reasonable guess ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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