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OP, are you sure that your printer has a serial port? That would be somewhat unusual I think, back in the day when I used many dot matrix printers, they all had
by acka 2y ago
OP, are you sure that your printer has a serial port? That would be somewhat unusual I think, back in the day when I used many dot matrix printers, they all had parallel (Centronics) ports. The same model printer in the one eBay listing I found (sold, maybe bought by you?) also has a parallel port, clearly visible in a photo of its backside.
- sanex 2y agoThe link he provided to the adapter is a parallel to USB adapter even though he has it called a serial one.
- acka 2y agoAh, that explains it. Thanks for pointing this out.
- aschmelyun 2y agoYep, parallel! My bad, I’ll have to make some adjustments to the article.
- mmmlinux 2y agoI was wondering how he plugged it in and magically there was /dev/lp0. but it makes more sense if its a parallel than a serial adapter.
- cbm-vic-20 2y agoI've got a DEC LA75 Companion Printer that uses serial. Still works. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54829/DEC-LA75-Companion-Printer/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54829/DEC-LA75-Compa...
- Tor3 2y agoEven though they typically came with Centronics ports, you could often add an additional interface. The Epson-compatible OKI printer I have can use an additional interface board (of which I have one) and have both a serial and parallel interface. And of course there are also those console printers which uses serial like the DEC LA printer mentioned in a sibling comment.
- acka 2y agoInteresting, nice to know!