retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

[James Knott]

Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> 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.
> 
> The two biggest problems:
> 
> * my distro considers parallel to be a 'legacy device', which you have 
> to build in support in the kernel.
> 
> * 9 ASCII characters are missing from the printer's repertoire, so no C 
> source for me ;-)

Mechanical printers often had a reduced character set, in order to 
reduce complexity.  I used to service Teletype printers and they were 
complex enough, with just upper case.
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