<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">How about this? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Type-Male-Centronics-CN36-Printer/dp/B000I996M6">http://www.amazon.com/Type-Male-Centronics-CN36-Printer/dp/B000I996M6</a><div><br><div><div>On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Martin wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">For me the best are the old dot-matrix with the serial connection.<br></blockquote><br>I've never seen an old dot-matrix with a serial connection.<br><br>For use with the Color Computer, I had a DIN4 serial port (RS232) connected to a box that would reframe the data in 8-bit packets. The box was connected to the printer directly by a Centronics36 cable. That was something made by hand, by the owner of a small computer shop in the 80's. Otherwise, I was limited to printers that supported DIN4, which were a 4-pen plotter and a 75-dpi CMYK inkjet (!!!).<br><br>When I connected dot-matrix printers to PC computers, it was using a DB25-to-Centronics36 cable, which was the normal way to do so.<br><br>I'm sure that there were RS232 dot matrix printers at one point, but they were not common.<br><br> _______________________________________________________________________<br>| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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