I have one of these Facit too waiting to be restored. I'd be interested in your program. Marc
Sent from my iPad > On May 5, 2016, at 7:40 PM, Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Request for information about a Facit 4070. > > > Yes, it can be hooked up to a parallel port interface. It takes a single > 74LS00 chip to generate the proper signals, and the ACK signals. I did it in > a simple jumper wire block (it has a male and female connector along with a > jumper field. > > At the moment I have lost my documentation, but I have a working unit ready > to be dissected to produce the proper diagram (it may take a while). I have > connected it to a "real" and a USB parallel port and used direct writes to > the parallel port device under Linux with no modification. > > > Also if you are interested, I have a program that sends out block letters to > be punched on the tape (along with leader). The letters are 5x7 and the 8th > is the descender for lower case letters. > > The various docs for the 4070 are on Bitsavers, and you want to be sure that > the "option" board just has jumpers on it (as it comes from the factory).
