wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott) (02/12/90)
In article <82@texbell.swbt.com> Mike Nolan writes: > Two sites in our area just asked the same question. (I was one of them.) > According to our local field engineer, the Tower parallel printer cable > IS different from a PC Centronics parallel printer cable. > Yet another example of a standard that is honored by NCR more in the > breach than in the bargain. While the IBM PC Centronic Parallel Port may have become the de-facto standard, it was not clearly so when the feature was first offered on the Tower. Nor does it obviate compatibility requirements within the Tower family. -- -Mike Wescott mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM