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From: geoff@actrix.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Commodore -> IBM connection
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.235406.2937@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 9 Jul 90 23:54:06 GMT
References: <8485.269855ed@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
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Summary:Use a C=64

In article <8485.269855ed@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> smithj@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>  I need to know how (if possible) to connect an OLD Commodore VIC-1571(?)
>printer to an IBM PC-XT compatible.

Hmmm, 1571 is a floppy disk, but presume you mean one of the printers
that used the C=64/VIC serial sort-of-IEEE interface.

Well a (simple?) solution is to use a C=64 or even (gasp!) a VIC-20. The
user port of these things can be set up to behave as a centronics
compatible parallel in port. It is then a simple matter to send the data
out via the usual printer port. A quick and dirty solution would involve
only a few dozen lines of assembler. A more sophisticated program could
utilise the available memory as a printer buffer.

If you wanted to use this permanently I would suggest having the program
blown into EPROM which can be placed on a PC board and plugged into the
machines cartridge port.

>such a thing.  Only the lucky few who can answer the question deserve to know
>why I would want to do such a thing.

I still can't figure out why you'd want to bother.......

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