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. There some discussion of this here... http://www.verycomputer.com/7_6d5ee14552657121_1.htm I don't know if Berg pin S on the LC8-P is a mode select like it is on an LP11/LPV11 (perhaps the LC8-P doesn't switch modes), but it shouldn't be hard to trace that out. The data and handshake lines should be at the same positions or the LC8-P wouldn't be able drive an LA-180. -ethan
