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From: wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: terminal interface query
Message-ID: <552@burl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 12:27:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.552
Posted: Wed Oct 10 12:27:46 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 06:53:21 EDT
Organization: AT&T Technologies; Burlington, NC
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I am thinking about buying a printer.  Since I am such a phenomenal
tightwad, I intend not to spend a dollar more than I have to.

I've been looking at some printer ads, and they tell me I need a
cable and a "Centronics parallel interface adapter" to hook a
printer to my C64.

I suspect that the adapter is needed only to translate from
Commodore PETSCII to ASCII, and that if I knew what to look for, I
could make or buy a cable for a lot less than the $18 quoted.

Now, am I right or wrong?  It would really be easy to write a
machine-language macro to do the character-code translation (if
that's all there is to it).  Has anybody jury-rigged (or bought) an
inexpensive cable?

ADthanksVANCE
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				--Bill Buie