retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

[Christopher Browne]

> Thanks, all. I found the old termcap entries, and it's definitely not
> EBCDIC, as it just understood ASCII with CRLFs. A venerable polymath
> of my acquaintance (Ted Harding -- mathematician, linguist, troff
> guru) has offered some additional help, so I think I'm set.

I really wouldn't have expected EBCDIC; that was only ever pushed by
IBM, and I'd be _really_ surprised to see EBCDIC hardware with a
Centronic parallel interface.

> The two biggest problems:
> 
> * my distro considers parallel to be a 'legacy device', which you have 
> to build in support in the kernel.

I'm marginally surprised about that; I seem to recall daisywheel
printers typically being serial devices, which might well be even _more_
"legacy" :-).

> * 9 ASCII characters are missing from the printer's repertoire, so no
> C source for me ;-)

Heh...
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