On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Christian Corti <c...@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Charles Dickman <c...@chdickman.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for schematics or any documentation for the LA180 >>> interface for the PDP8/e. A scan would be great. I want to see if I >>> can use it to interface to a Centronics interface printer. >> >> >> I don't have the schematics (I do have an LC8-P somewhere), but I >> remember back in the day, people wanted to go the other way - feed a >> PC printer w/Centronics interface from a DEC interface. > > > It's not the other way, it's the same way ;-) (attatching a Centronics/PC > printer to a DEC interface)
Yes, I want to connected an OKIDATA Microline82A to the PDP8/e. Looking at the LA180 manual's description of the LC8-P interface, it is pretty close to Centronics. I expect it is more than just a cable, though, because there is also an OMNIBUS Centronics printer interface board (LS8-E). That schematic is on bitsavers. I also have an LE8-E (M841), but that only provides 7 data bits to the printer. -chuck
