Printer cable: Oric to DB36?

[Symoon]

Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible ton find anywhere a printer cable, that could plug from Oric's parallel port to a PC old-style printer with the big DB36 port?
I guess not, but who knows

[Dbug]

Find one in a shop, I doubt it, but you can regularly find some bundled with some of the orics you find online, good only oric to centronics

[iss]

From the French forum I understand you already found what you need and all works, so congrats!

This is what I have - DB36 to IDC26 (2 variants):

About DB36 it's clear - it goes to printer, but for IDC26 I have no idea for what kind of computer it's intended to be?
Anyway, I don't need these cables, so if anyone wants them - PM me. Keep in mind they are old and they literally have smell of old.

[Symoon]

I enventually found one, hidden in a box of... Audio cables!

Just tested the Star STX 80 printer and it's impressive in text mode. 1st time I printed on a real Oric

Didn't try anything graphic yet. I was about to sell the printer, now I want to keep it

[Symoon]

About DB36 it's clear - it goes to printer, but for IDC26 I have no idea for what kind of computer it's intended to be?

By googling a bit, they seem to plug directly on a motherboard?
https://www.startech.com/fr/Cables/Seri ... ATE25F16LP

[Equinoxe]

I wonder if anyone has tried something like this with an Oric - looks like it has a good chance of working assuming the printer is fairly basic http://lpt2usb.com/

[Steve M]

I used to use a Star printer back in the day. LC24-10 I think was my model. Wrote a few OUM articles on that!
I think I still have some of that fan-fold paper with the holes on the sides.

It's pretty nice to use with a word processor like Easytext, which gives the 80 column output.
I remember printing out some HIRES screens but I'm not sure how I did it It was slow - but a lot quicker than the MCP40 plotter.

[Dbug]

I remember printing out some HIRES screens but I'm not sure how I did it It was slow - but a lot quicker than the MCP40 plotter.

And probably a lot cheaper, the MCP40 is emptying the small pens faster than by car emptying the petrol tank

[Steve M]

I think re-inking may be the way to go.
Printer ink is getting harder to find though.

I didn't know the old Centronics was a DB36 - the things you learn on here !!!

[mikeb]

I'm not sure if DB36 is the right description -- I think of DB as being the DB-9/15/25 "D-sub" range (like for mice, joystick, serial ports)

A proper Centronics was usually an Amphenol 36-way (2 row) connector. Like the IEEE488/GPIB/HPIB (24 pin?) but obviously bigger.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ribbon_connector

DB-25 was for the IBM-PC style parallel port

[tingo]

And the correct name for the 9-pin connector often used for serial ports is DE-9, not DB-9.