This wasn't some sort of proprietary thing, IIRC, you just plugged it between your printer and the parallel port and it just worked. We used it on our #PCjr and later our 286 machine.
Reading the description in the catalogue it was even more interesting than I thought. It was programmable and had an OS. In the late 80s!
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Kyle Davis /
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2024-06-11 18:41:16
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