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I'm really living in the future, I printed from my handheld computer (thelemmy.club)
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Picture of an Apple Imagewriter printer with printed paper coming out and a Palm m105 sitting in its dock placed on top of the printer

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[–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is really cool! I only have a Palm TX with the USB sync cable so I'm curious how you accomplished this?

I assume Palm is it attached to some parallel port adapter or something?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    The Imagewriter is a serial printer, so I just plugged the dock directly into the printer with a db25-de9 adapter

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    I'm definitely going to have to look into this. I have a bunch of old Pocket PCs and I wonder if they would have a similar, simple solution.

    I've of printed plenty of things through irda, but it would be neat to actually hook them up with a physical connection not to mention that would give me a wider variety of printers to choose from.

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