Re: support for ancient peripherals
On Monday, November 7, 2022 10:39 AM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc@gmx.net> wrote:
> I have installed last week a HP Laserjet 4P which is the same ilk. It works
> fine.
That's encouraging. Did your computer have a parallel port, or did you use
an adapter or print server? Thanks.
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From: Peter von Kaehne <refdoc@gmx.net>
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2022 10:39 AM
To: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: support for ancient peripherals
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I have installed last week a HP Laserjet 4P which is the same ilk. It works fine.
Debian 11
Peter
Sent from my phone. Please forgive misspellings and weird “corrections”
> On 7 Nov 2022, at 15:30, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) <kleenesj@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
>
> On November 5, 2022 7:21 PM, I wrote:
>
>> As you might understand, I'd like to replace my desktop, a 2006 Pentium 4
>> with a 3-GHz processor. It has always run Debian, and so will the new one.
>>
>> My concern is about support for three ancient peripherals that I like better
>> than the modern equivalents:
>
> Thanks to all of you for your many detailed and helpful responses. I think
> my next move will be to connect with my local Linux users group (which I'm
> ashamed to say I've never done). I'll describe the problem and see if they
> can suggest a good local shop.
>
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> From: mick.crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>
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>> On 2022-11-05 23:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
>>
>> 3. An HP LaserJet 5MP printer from 1995 with a parallel-port connector.
>
> Pretty sure used used HP Jetdirect in the past with cups.
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