@foone I wonder just how many actually support PCL3 and you can just use that. For the longest time it was almost universal, I mean--- the go-to for a universal printer driver was just to tell your OS/application it's a Laserjet 4 in PCL personality
A bunch of inkjets also did ESC/P2
Really this kinda just all continued right up until Canon figured out they could save two cents per printer by making the Windows GDI output a raster image and clock it out the parallel port
@foone they're a bountiful little box of useful peripherals too. Bell 202 modem, keypad, at least two external serial ports, the magstripe reader, keypad, and VFD. I think there must also be a piezo beeper in there. Power is just bog standard 12v if I remember correctly
just got weird looks and chuckles from all my coworkers after telling them about how I had a ham radio activated coffee machine back in like 2010
what, that's not a normal thing?
it was an old GE Phoenix SX with one channel programmed on it, rigged up to trigger a latching relay that'd power up the coffee pot. As I approached the office I'd just key up on that frequency with the right PL tone (and of course say my callsign at the end) and I'd have fresh coffee when I got in
@foone was hoping to find a Unicode character that looks like a mouse pointer.
I was just kinda rambling about this I forgot it was at least some kinda triple bucky click so you wouldn't immediately figure out it's there but yeah https://youtu.be/pXPXMxsXT28
@foone@mgerdts That is adorable. UART over SCSI. We use a ton of Digi One SP serial over IP devices on an internal network here for controlling remote microwave site antennas and cameras. They make some odd and wonderful interfaces.
@foone the tool to mount these in a panel is called a PEMserter, and insert, it does.
Out of strange curiosity I once stuck a phone book in one and stepped on the pedal. It damn near punched through it. I'm glad it didn't go ALL the way through; we've all seen on the Hydraulic Press Channel what this looks like 🎊🎊🎊