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From: cgreen@essex.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: connecting a Commodore printer to an IBM
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Date: 10 May 91 09:36:41 GMT
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From article <125@speedy.ada.cci.de>, by smeets@speedy.ada.cci.de (Vincent Smeets):
> Does anybody have an idee about how I can connect a Brother HR-10C
> daisywheel printer to an IBM (or compatible)? The problem is that this
> printer has a connector for a Commodore C-64 computer and this is a
> synchronical serial connection.
> 

[stuff deleted]

> My first idee was to connect the printer to the serial port of my
> Centronics to Commodore-Serial. For this solution, I need a building
> plan or a place and price where I can buy a convertor.
> 
Here is note I just put up on the COMMODOR mailing list which may be of
interest:-

There is a company in the UK which makes such an interface, their
address is:-


    York Electronic Research,
    The Paddocks,
    Jockey Lane,
    Huntington,
    York  YO3 9NE
    England

Telephone number 44 904 610722

They accept Visa and Access (=MasterCard).  The "interface cable, PC
software and manual" costs 35.25 pounds sterling including VAT (local
tax, 17.5%).  The tax isn't chargeable if they mail it direct to you
in the USA, I used to find when I lived overseas that the mailing cost
just about offset the VAT that was saved.

Currently one pound sterling is about $1.70 but the rate is fluctuating
quite a lot at the moment.

The full text of the advertisement is as follows by the way, it might
tell you as much as you need to know:-

--------------------------------------------------------------
L I N K   C 6 4   P E R I P H E R A L S    T O   Y O U R   P C

* interface cable, PC software & manual #35.25 including VAT
                                             ----------------
* Connects directly - No C64 required        |    CBM 64    |
                                             | Disk drives  |
* Menu-driven disk file transfer program     ----------------
                                               \|/      /|\
* Read/write text, binary and BASIC files    ----------------
                                             |    IBM PC    |
* Printer drivers for MPS, DPS, VIC & HR10   | & compatibles|
                                             ----------------
* Intercepts standard DOS PRN/LPT output           \|/
                                             ----------------
* Full 96 character ASCII set supported      |	  CBM 64    |
                                             |   Printers   |
* EPSON graphics emulation on MPS801/3       ----------------

Y o r k   E l e c t r o n i c   R e s e a r c h (0904) 610722
    The Paddocks, Jockey Lane, Huntington, York, YO3 9NA
--------------------------------------------------------------

I hope the boxes and so on come out OK through the mail!

Chris Green  (chris@kbss.bt.co.uk  or  cgreen@essex.ac.uk)