[net.micro.cbm] mail for Jim Gillogly

wg@aluxp.UUCP (gieske) (03/29/84)

Jim,
    There is a Cardco interface available for $40 that provides parallel
printer output from the second port on the disk drive.  This is the way
I will go to hook up the Olivetti Praxis typewriter I want to use as a
printer.
    As for the serial port, you're right, it's not all there.  I was told
that it operates at TTL level, not RS232, and that conversion would be
necessary.  Even having done this, getting it to work seems like a great
big headache.  

Bill Gieske
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Allentown, PA