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From: porter@inuxd.UUCP (J Porter)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 printer (?) ports
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 08:18:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 08:18:10 1984
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis
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No, you just can't hook up the serial line that goes to the disk
to your printer.  You need an interface like a cardco brand
CARD?/B.  This will even translate cursor characters within
print statements to ascii characters.  Highly recommended.

The serial bus that the disk hooks up to has a protocol
similiar to the IEEE488 sideways (IEEE is parallel in nature,
the 64's bus in serial in nature).  The CARD?/B interface
costs about $40 and hooks into the centronics parallel port
on your printer.  The other end plugs into the serial bus and
the cassette connector (from which it is powered).

Jeff Porter  (inuxd!porter)
AT&T Consumer Products
Indianapolis