Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!wjb 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 Lines: 20 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