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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:FUNYET::ANDERSON
Created:Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1433
Total number of notes:10312

782.0. "Citizen 120D - serail int prob ?????" by STRIKR::FROGGATT (The Gothic Goblin has spoken....) Fri Feb 23 1990 09:19

Hi all,
	I've borrowed a Citizen 120D printer with a serial interface off one of my friends.  
I can't get it working, the computers fine, a 520STM, and the printers fine because it works on his QL.
I think it is the DIP switch settings on the interface.  I've tried all the settup options on the Control 
panel.  I've tried useing it with various comms packages to treat it as a hardcopy terminal but no joy. 
Any help or thoughts on this problem will be gratefully recieved.

Thanks in advance
	Colin.
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782.1Reposted in 80 columnsPRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaFri Feb 23 1990 13:5515
    <<< Note 782.0 by STRIKR::FROGGATT "The Gothic Goblin has spoken...." >>>
                   -< Citizen 120D - serail int prob ????? >-

Hi all,
	I've borrowed a Citizen 120D printer with a serial interface
off one of my friends.   I can't get it working, the computers fine, a
520STM, and the printers fine because it works on his QL. I think it is
the DIP switch settings on the interface.  I've tried all the settup
options on the Control  panel.  I've tried useing it with various comms
packages to treat it as a hardcopy terminal but no joy.  Any help or
thoughts on this problem will be gratefully recieved.

Thanks in advance
	Colin.
782.2Possible avenues of investigationPRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaFri Feb 23 1990 13:589
Some device won't work unless you assert DTR - however - in this case I
suspect you have a connector pin-out problem.  Many printers have female
connectors that are pinned as if they were male, so you attachem the to
a properly pinned device, such as the ST,  you need a male-to-male gender
changer and a proper null-modem cable that swaps pins 2 and 3.

I assume, of course, that you did attach the printer to the ST's AUX
port, not to it's printer port.
782.3STRIKR::FROGGATTThe Gothic Goblin has spoken....Fri Mar 02 1990 10:347
Thanks,
	It was a pin out problem.  I borrowed a break out box and swapped
 the pins and it worked fine.  

Thanks again 
		Colin.