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TRS-80 Model 100 printing


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Does anyone know where to get or, failing that, how to make a printer cable for a TRS-80 Model 100?

 

I have the Model 100 computer and a Tandy DMP-130, but no way to get between the two.

 

I tried to bodge a printer cable together using a centronics to male DB25 parallel printer cable, connected to a flat ribbon female DB25 to IDC 26 cable, but that didn't work. The printer goes off line and refuses to respond when I plug it into either of my Model 100s. Same thing when I tried it with my Okidata Microline dot matrix. I know both printers work, and I know the cables are good, but that combination doesn't work. 

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Well, problem solved! In the end I made my own cable exactly like the one you linked on ebay, and it worked perfectly. I didn't have the patience to wait for a cable to ship from Australia, and rooting around in my junk boxes turned up enough bits to build a cable like the one pictured

 

I think in the end it was something to do with my parallel printer cable. I use that cable to print to my Okidata dot matrix printer from my windows desktop and my Tandy WP-2 (which has a standard DB25 parallel port), but it wouldn't work with either of those and the Tandy DMP-130 printer.   Interestingly, the Tandy DMP-130 works fine with a USB to centronics cable and my windows desktop.

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