Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!schneids From: schneids@ssc-vax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: terminal interface query Message-ID: <150@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 01:18:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.150 Posted: Thu Oct 18 01:18:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 07:36:39 EDT References: <552@burl.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 32 > 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 > -- > > --Bill Buie *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Not only does the interface have to convert pet-ascii to standard ascii; but, it must ALSO convert from the Commodore serial bus to a parallel centronics "word." The Schneids ssc-vax!schneids