It brought me memories of being 15 and hooking up a parallel (lpt) epson printer (a miniplotter really) to a netbsd machine, failing miserably and failing miser

It brought me memories of being 15 and hooking up a parallel (lpt) epson printer (a miniplotter really) to a netbsd machine, failing miserably and failing miserably. Text printed fine (mostly), anything else resulted in pages and pages of ascii characters (lol).