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Date: 2001-06-24
Subject: RE: Plus/4 Parallel Cable and Software - Thanks, this might help
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Marko,
You are correct. I hope that I can get this info from someone that has already done this, but if not, your info may help.
Eric
>
>I understood that Eric was looking for a Centronics cable for the plus/4,
>that he could use for connecting his plus/4 to a printer. The X1541 cable
>lets you to connect a Commodore serial bus disk drive to an IBM PC
>compatible.
>
>Connecting the printer is straightforward for the data lines, but there is
>some choice for the handshaking lines. On the printer side, you strictly
>need STROBE (plus/4 signals that a new data byte is ready) and ACK
>(printer acknowledges the reception of the data). The BUSY output from
>the printer does not need to be connected, and neither needs the INIT
>input to printer (which acts like the RESET line on the Commodore side).
>
>If there already is a "standard" for Centronics printers on the plus/4
>that you want to conform to, you need to find out how the handshaking
>lines are connected on the plus/4 side. You don't need the schematics for
>that; just have a look at the machine code of a printer driver.
>
> Marko
>
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