wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (10/10/84)
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
schneids@ssc-vax.UUCP (10/18/84)
> 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