The following printers were produced by Atari and styled to match the 400/800
computers.
Atari 820 Printer
- Sold by Atari in the USA only
- 40-column dot matrix impact printer
- 5x7 dot matrix
- 40 characters per line, upper & lower case alpha
- Horizontal and vertical alphanumeric characters
- 6507 MPU (MOS Technology MCS6507 or equivalent), C010745
- 6532 PIA (MOS Technology 6532 RAM-I/O-Timer (RIOT) or equivalent), C010750
- 2KiB ROM
- 40 characters per second
- 400/800 OS: Responds to P: and ignores any device number
XL OS: Responds to P: and P1:
- 2 Atari SIO ports for direct connection to Atari computers
- Included:
- Atari SIO cable CA14122 (3 ft.)
- Ribbon
- Standard Roll Paper (one roll)
- Atari 820 Printer Operator's Manual C014762 (CO14762)
- Power supply is built-in (plugs directly into the wall, 120V AC, 18W)
- (There is no 220V/240V version of the 820.)
- Uses Standard Roll Paper/adding machine paper
- Print mechanism: LRC 7000 / Eaton 7000
- Made in ????????
- Industrial design (case): Roy Nishi and Russell W. Farnell
- Sold separately:
- Atari 820 Printer Paper (Roll Paper) C014062
- Atari 820 Printer Ribbon C014854
- Technical manuals:
- Atari 820 40 Column Printer Service Manual
- FS015893 REV. 1 January, 1980
- Atari 820 40 Column Printer Field Fervice Manual
- FD100048 July, 1981 (c)1982
Atari 822 Thermal Printer
- 37 characters per second
- 10 characters per inch (cpi)
- 40 characters per line, upper/lower case and point graphics
- 5x7 dot matrix
- 400/800 OS: Responds to P: and ignores any device number
XL OS: Responds to P: and P1:
- 2 Atari SIO ports for direct connection to Atari computers
- Included:
- AC Power Adapter
- I/O Data Cord
- One roll of white thermal paper installed
- Atari 822 Thermal Printer Operator's Manual C015954 (CO15954)
- Power: Used with an external 9 volt AC transformer power supply rated for at
least 18 watts: Atari CA014748 or equivalent
- Print mechanism: Trendcom 100
- Made in USA by Trendcom for Atari
- Sold separately:
- Atari 822 Thermal Printer Paper (2 rolls) C016345
Atari 825 80-Column Printer
- Sold by Atari in the USA only
- Dot matrix impact printer
- 3 character sets:
monospaced 7x8 dot matrix at 10 cpi (default)
monospaced condensed at 16.7 cpi
proportionately spaced Nx9 dot matrix at avg of 14 cpi (N=6..18)
- Each character set with 96 standard ASCII characters
- All characters can be elongated (printer double width)
- Characters per line: 80 at 10 cpi; 132 at 16.7 cpi
- Speed: 50 cps at 10 cpi; 83 cps at 16.7 cpi; 79 cps avg. proportional
- Print buffer: 1200 dot columns
- Controls along bottom of front of printer, left to right:
- Online/Local
- Paper Rev<->Fwd
- Power Off On
- Paper: roll, fanfold, or cut sheets
- Connectivity: 40 pin PCB edge. Pinout:
40 2
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
39 1
1. Data Strobe 2. Ground
3. Data Bit 1 4. Ground
5. Data Bit 2 6. Ground
7. Data Bit 3 8. Ground
9. Data Bit 4 10. Ground
11. Data Bit 5 12. Ground
13. Data Bit 6 14. Ground
15. Data Bit 7 16. Ground
17. Data Bit 8 18. Ground
19. Acknowledge 20. Ground
21. Busy 22. Ground
23. Always Logic 0 (Ground) 24. Ground
25. On-Line 26. Not Used
27. Signal Ground 28. Always Logic 1
29. Not Used 30. Ground
31. Signal Ground 32. +-+ Pin 32 connected to
33. Chassis Ground 34. +-+ Pin 34 in Printer
35. +5V Signal (Power Supply On) 36. Demand
37. +17V 38. Not Used
39. +17V 40. Not Used
- Requires Atari 850 Interface Module or equivalent to connect to the
Atari computer. As such:
400/800 OS: Responds to P: and ignores any device number
XL OS: Responds to P:, P1:, and P2:
- Included:
- Ribbon
- Atari CX86 Printer Cable (825 to 850 parallel)
- Atari 825 80-Column Printer Operator's Manual C015506 (CO15506)
- Power supply is built-in (plugs directly into the wall, 120V AC, 100W)
- (There is no 220V/240V version of the 825.)
- Print mechanism: Centronics 737
- Made in ????????
- Sold separately:
- Atari 825 Printer Ribbon (3 per box) CA016087
- Atari 825 Printer Paper (Roll Paper) C016233
- Atari 825 Paper Mandrel C016229
- Atari 825 Paper Roll Support C016230
- Atari 825 Paper Deflector C016231
- Technical manual: 825 Printer Field Service Manual |