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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet another weird problem; DOS thinking floppy was ejected.
Keywords: Disk drive, floppy, AIR, question, eject, spam.
Message-ID: <782@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 28 Sep 89 22:32:47 GMT
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In <12790@s.ms.uky.edu>, phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>     And I have a weird printer with a not-quite-standard Centronics
>port hooked up and turned off. (I had to alter a standard cable to make
>it work... anybody know why Tandy would output +5VDC on what is SUPPOSED
>to be a ground?

If that's pin 18 you are talking about, it is supposed to output +5V or be
ground. Depends on the printer.

-larry

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