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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 01:18:14 1984
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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
> -- 
> 
> 				--Bill Buie

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	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
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