Using Old Tandy Printers

[Tech]

I understand that Altair Clone does not have a parallel port, only serials. Many old Tandy printers have DIN 4 serial ports, like the one in attachment. Can Altair print on such printers, using an adopted cable of course?

[AltairClone]

This should be pretty easy to make work. Connect pins 3, 4, and 7 of the bottom serial port on the Altair to DIN pins 4, 2, 3 respectively. In the serial port menu on the Clone, make sure the serial port is configured as a 2SIO port and then choose the “CTS, RTS Both Used” handshake option.

Mike