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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[–] 16 points 5 days ago

We used to print to the college printers using infrared from our psion pdas. Bypassed the printer accounting software, so printing for free!

Good times.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    your couch doesn’t look very comfortable

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    The original ImageWriter! I feel like these are much rarer than the ImageWriter IIs.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Zooming in to understand that clear, plastic paper guide, I feel like it's a miracle it's survived intact all these years.

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  • You have the silent hill town fall 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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