[GreenKeys] AT&T 5310 printer line

[Jack Hart]

I had a 5310 also. It went onto Ebay a year or so ago. Worked fine
with an RS232 interface.  The ribbon cartridge was hard to find,
if I remember correctly.
I wonder if the keyboard associated with the same-vintage "Teletype/AT&T"
CRT terminal (the brown/ivory-colored one) works with this printer?
I don't recall the model number of that terminal, but it was 
popular in the 80's for awhile (seemed to take the place of the
40 inside Ma Bell).

Jack  K0TTY

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-----Original Message-----
From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim
Haynes
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:54 PM
To: Don Robert House
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Anyone on here know about the AT&T 5310 printer
line?

Yeah, I got one of those 5310T units also.  But have not made any use of it.
The 5310 given me by the former Teletype guy seems to be the keyboardless
model intended for use as a printer with a PC, as it has a "Centronics" type
of connector on the back, and no place to plug in a keyboard.  And has some
problem - when I turn it on it gives an error code on the front display and
the 5310T manual just says that any code other than 800 means something is
wrong somewhere.  So I need a maintenace manual, if I'm going to fix it.
Which seems unlikely anyway.

The guy told me that the keyboard logic is the same as an IBM PC keyboard.
He gave me 3 keyboards, all are heavy like the old IBM keyboards.  One has
no cord, one has a cord with a DB-9 connector, and one has a cord with a
PS/2 sort of connector.  So none of them works with the 5310T, but if I knew
the connections I could make an adapter to use any IBM keyboard with it.
Assuming he is telling the truth.  I just plugged that keyboard into my PC
and it seems to work fine, so if that's really true about the 5310s then any
keyboard old enough to have the PS/2 connector should work, with the proper
connections.

But the one with the DB-9 connector has 5 pins, so I don't know if a 4-pin
modular plug is adequate.  Well I just looked at it, and it is a 6-pin
modular.  I don't know if it will be possible without a schematic to figure
out how to wire the 5 pins of the DB-9 into the six pin modular.


jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
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