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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 64 printer
Message-ID: <21561@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:26:39 GMT
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sn15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steve Neas) writes:
>But now that I'm getting an Amiga, is it possible to connect an old
>Commodore-ready printer to it.

You really don't want to do this.  First, the speed on the old 64 serial
bus was pitiful.  Second, there wasn't a Commodore printer made that
was particularly good.  Third, all of the Commodore specific printers
were designed to print the weird C64 character set, not standard ASCII.

Bite the bullet and buy a new printer.  They're getting real cheap (I got
my Panasonic KXP1124, an EXCELLENT printer, for $259 on sale), and much,
much better than the older ones.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us