retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote:

> I'm hoping there are geeks out there venerable enough to remember something 
> about printing to a daisywheel. I just scored an IBM Wheelwriter 10 Series II 
> 6783 typewriter with parallel print option from Freecycle.
>
> There's nothing about printer codes in the manual, and seemingly nothing on 
> the net about controlling it. Dunno if it'll talk Diablo or Qume codes, but 
> even these seem to have almost entirely dropped from memory.

I only have some experience with chain line printers but the idea is you 
have to use the right driver esp. wrt carriage return time (there is no 
buffer ?).

This key on google may help:

daisy printcap

let us know how it works,

Peter
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