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From: jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: VIC 1525 Printer pinout
Message-ID: <1213@uwm.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:24:36 GMT
References: <303@guardian.UUCP>
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In comp.sys.cbm article <303@guardian.UUCP>, kenner@guardian.UUCP (Ken Reese) wrote:
>I happened to acquire a VIC 1525 printer with absolutely no documentation.
>It appears to be a type of serial printer but I'm only guessing.  If
>anyone has any information on this beast (pinout, handshaking, etc), would
>you be so kind as to share it with me.  I would like to use it as a general
>printer (not necessarily running on a commodore machine).

It IS a serial printer, but uses Commodore's propietary multiple device
serial bus architecture (offshoot of the IEEE-488 standard).  Unless you
have a Commodore computer to act as an intermediate host, you would probably
be better off forgetting it.

The 1525 also lacks some ASCII characters (and instead has the Commodore
equivalents).  A driver written on an intermediate host could solve this
problem as well.

I once did something like this with a different Commodore-specific printer
and a VIC.

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