Printing from HP-86B ?

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(07-11-2017 03:36 PM)Martin Hepperle Wrote:  ... there is a DIP Switch on the HP-IL interface board which allows you to set the board to be a System Controller or not ... RTFM ...

RTFM Indeed!

This was exactly the problem; once enabling Controller mode on the 82838A, printed output is seen in the IL-Per window (I'm using V2.23 from Christoph)

I've not done extensive testing but PRINT statements, PLIST, etc. all seem to work fine, I can see no reason other standard PRINT-ed output would behave differently.

The ironic thing is I examined the dip-switch before initial testing to ensure the select code was default (9). I saw the controller switch setting but simply presumed it was on the default setting (i.e. Controller ON). The label inside the case identifies the role of the individual switches, but not the effect of the setting.

@SMP - Go for it, it works fine.

@Martin Hepperle - Thanks for the firm prod!

@Dave Frederickson - Thanks for the suggestion

@JFG - Thanks for the comments. And for the PIL-Box. Again.

This is really great news as this is by far the easiest method of getting text (program listings, program output, data, etc.) out of the HP-80 series and into one's PC.

If only the other direction were as easy...

@JFG - Would you expect DOSLINK to work for copying in a test file from the PC? Of course a program would be needed to read input from device 904, but I don't know how IL-Per would control flow of the file data once initiated?

Update: Additional testing has verified capture of program output as well. By simply changing the Printer device 710 -> 901 in Martin's SYSINV program and toggling output to printer, all output was indeed sent to IL-Per and captured.

A sample of the captured data is attached in a text file COPY/PASTEd from the IL-Per client window