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From: jph@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (joseph.p.haggerty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: How do I connect a parallel printer?
Keywords: C-128, Qume ProPrinter, Centronics, GEOS
Message-ID: <5094@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 13:22:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I have been offered a Qume ProPrinter 20 (Centronics parallel interface, daisy
wheel) printer at an attractive price, but I don't know how to connect it to my
C-128.  I have heard about "interface cards" and a "geoPrint cable" (from
Berkeley Softworks but out of production).  The interface cards seem to convert
between Centronics parallel and the Commodore serial bus, but they cost as much
as the printer!  Is the Berkley cable just a wire--something that I could
fabricate myself?  Does anybody have any idea which GEOS driver would work?

			Joe Haggerty
			AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany, NJ
			[attunix!]whamr!jph