At 10:45 AM 1/25/2006, Chris Arndt wrote: >And, you'll need a serial line printer, which is fairly rare these days. >I used an old (OLD) Epson MX80 dot matrix printer with a parallel to >serial converter for a while. Now I have mine connected to a serial port >on my PC, and look at the output in Hyperterminal. The PC also runs my >weather station software, so it's running all the time anyway, and I >just leave that Hyperterminal session running on it. > >A couple of other things... > >My 123211-D will buffer up to a page of calls, and we never have that >many in a day. I put the printer on a timer (an X10 module controlled by >my home automation software) and turned it on for 5 minutes every day to >get the printout. > >Also, you need a line or character printer, rather than a page printer >like an inkjet or a laser. Else you will either get a single line on >each piece of paper, or maybe, like above, the printer will save >everything until there's a page worth to print.
I was thinking that it was assumed that the original poster would use a computer to capture the data. The last serial printer I ever installed on a phone system was in 2002 at a motel, before they got call accounting. With Windows, you just run Hyperterm, open the serial port, capture to a file, and minimize the task. Restore it when you want to see what's been sent. Carl _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
