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From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: C64 as a printer buffer
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Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 13:47:00 EST
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dickow@ui3 says:
> .....Check out the December (?) (I just loaned my copy out to someone so
> I can't check it) issue of Computer Shopper. There is a first instalment
> on an article to give detailed directions on how to build a hardware
> interface to allow using a C64 as a printer buffer, or for other forms
> of communicating with the Amiga. This could be a great boon to many an
> 'C64 upgrader' such as myself.

    as it happens, the same ish of 'shopper contains the second of three(?)
installments of an article about interfacing a C64 (or amiga!) to an ibm
pc via parallel port.  i heard long ago that the pc's parallel port was
an inch away from being bidirectional, but never tried to close that gap.
this article has instructions for making the modification, and it seems
nearly trivial even to a h/w neophyte like me (disconnect one pin from
ground, jumper it to unused pin on another chip).  since i have an AT
handy, i'm going to try my hand at building a homebrew turbo-sidecar.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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