Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!raven.alaska.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!squishy From: squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Shishin Yamada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: manual for interface wanted Keywords: comp.sys.atari.8bit Message-ID: <1991May12.175030.25698@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 12 May 91 17:50:30 GMT References: Organization: Northwestern University Lines: 40 In article williams@fquest.fidonet.org (Jason Williams) writes: >Would anyone happen to have a manual for an old Axiom AT-846 parallel >interface? Specifically, I need the pinouts of the centronics parallel >port...I have a printer here that I can't get to work any need to know >the pinouts for a cable..Is Axiom still in buisnesS??? > Sorry, I don't know about Axiom corp. I did have an PR: connection though (Yes, my familly bought its first Atari 800 in 1981, and I bought a 130xe in 1985 or 86. Now, I'm a happy Mac II user, but the Atari can never be beat for having fun with the harware). Anyways, the partial pinouts of the centronics parallel interface for a 36 pin centronics male plug along with the PR: 15 pin cable is (The PR used a DB15P plug): Centronics PR: Name ----------------------------- 1 1 Data Strobe 2 2 D0 3 3 D1 4 4 D2 5 5 D3 6 6 D4 7 7 D5 8 8 D6 9 15 D7 11 13 Busy 16 11 Ground 32 12 Fault I sorry I don't have information if the Axiom is a different connector. ===================================================== Shishin "Squish" Yamada |\/\/\/| squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu /---------\ | | Northwestern University | Yo | (o)(o) | Electrical Engineering | Dudes! \ ( < ) Class of 1991 \__________\ |___/ | \ | "Life sucks, but Death swallows!" / \ /______\ =====================================================