I just collected a small shoebox of steppers from a large copier/printer combo...
Inexperience bids me ask --- Do all steppers have a standardized hookup, or are they proprietary

 

Fairly standard, two types, Unipolar and Bi-polar.
Unipolar can be ran in Bi-polar mode.
Depends on the winding count.
Let Google be your friend.
Max.

 

Hello,

The following page has links to some stepper motor tutorials:
http://www.stepperworld.com/Tutorials/

This is one of the links of the EDUCYPEDIA page on stepper motors:
http://educypedia.karadimov.info/electronics/motorstep.htm

Bertus

 

Jones on stepper motors is THE site.