Jeff_A_Scott@cup.portal.com (02/17/89)
Can anyone tell me how to use a C-64 printer as (preferably) a Centronics-parallel or (second choice or if first choice is expensive) RS-232 printer? Thanks a lot to whomever replies. Jeff Scott jscott@cup.portal.com ... !sun!portal!cup.portal.com!jscott
jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Joe Greco) (02/21/89)
In comp.sys.cbm article <14717@cup.portal.com>, Jeff_A_Scott@cup.portal.com wrote: ] ] Can anyone tell me how to use a C-64 printer as (preferably) ] a Centronics-parallel or (second choice or if first choice is ] expensive) RS-232 printer? Thanks a lot to whomever replies. I used to use a VIC-20 as a converter to do this. A Centronics parallel connector was wired to the user port, and the VIC ran a quick program to accept port input and output it to serial with ASCII/PETSCII conversions. Unless you have a printer that is designed specifically to also be used with a different type of interface, the chances are that this would be one of the more effective ways. The 64 Serial Bus isn't exactly simple, when compared to RS232 or Centronics. -- jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Joe Greco at FidoNet 1:154/200 USnail: 9905 W Montana Ave PunterNet Node 30 or 31 West Allis, WI 53227-3329 "These aren't anybody's opinions." Voice: 414/321-6184 Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS)
mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) (02/21/89)
In article <1153@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu writes: >I used to use a VIC-20 as a converter to do this. A Centronics >parallel connector was wired to the user port, and the VIC ran a quick >program to accept port input and output it to serial with >ASCII/PETSCII conversions. Now that my oldest son has left home, I have three VIC-20's (and one 35K-byte memory/bus expander, and three 1541 disk drives, and one 1526 printer, and four 300-baud modems, several B/W CRT's, and gobs of books and other stuff) that he told me I could sell "for a song" (say perhaps $25's, $25, $135's, $100, $20's, $50's, and $??'s, each, respectively, and I'll pay shipping to contiguous USA). You ask "and what is my son using now?" Well, he kept a couple of C-64's, with disk drives, a 1200-baud modem, the color monitor, a couple of high-quality printers, and all the games. He's NOT hurting for Commodore stuff--just couldn't take it all with him when he went to college! --Myron Myron A. Calhoun, PhD EE, W0PBV, (913) 532-6350 (work), 539-4448 (home). INTERNET: mac@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu BITNET: mac@ksuvax1.bitnet UUCP: ...{rutgers, texbell}!ksuvax1!harry!harv