HPIB fundamentals (was Questions - Universe/68, HP-9134A,

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Thanks for the help Steve. How something simple like a
> printer ? I have two HPIB printers, one a full-size HP
> line printer and the other a 2225 ThinkJet. Having
> either printer hooked up to Linux would actually be
> quite useful.

Pritners are quite easy. You address them as a listener, then send data 
to them. Most HPIB printers of that period (and certainly the TJ) will 
print ASCII text without problems. 

The TJ should respond to the same escape sequences as other Thinkjets...

Of course how you do that under linux is another matter. I've either done 
it on HP machines (which are very much plug-n-play) or the hard way, 
directly talking to the HPIB controller registers on single-board machines..

-tony