Author: robert
Date: 11:15:30 04/16/99
I'd like to be able to get game output from my old Fidelity Elite A/S Challenger but have no information on the printer which would normally be attached to the little round 5-pin interface. So my questions are: 1. What kind of printer was it? In case I have to try to buy a used one, does anybody know the model number for the original? Steve at Your Move mentioned that the printer might be a modified Epson invoice printer; does anyone know whether non-Fidelity printers will work? 2. Has anybody ever bothered to make a home-brew interface to convert the signals coming from the printer port to an RS-232 interface? I threw a scope on the port and it looks similar to an old Apple interface; can anyone verify that? If I could get some sort of EBCDIC or ASCII input for one of my computers I could probably massage it into some usable format by writing a little routine in C, awk or sed. I'd be thankful for any information or suggestions on where to find more information (or an actual printer if I can't breadboard an interface). And to answer the question "Why doesn't he just toss the Fidelity and get a TASC or Kasparov autoboard", first, I like the old thing and second, I'm not really good enough yet to need anything stronger than the Fidelity and don't want to sink a lot of money into chess equipment until I see how well my ability develops and whether my enthusiasm for the game keeps increasing. Thanks in advance, Robert
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