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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Is serialport->rs232c buffer possible ?
Summary: my mother disagrees
Keywords: my mother dislikes this
Message-ID: <1991May22.174953.9881@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 22 May 91 17:49:53 GMT
Sender: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Im posting this for my father...
I have myself an amiga, but he uses c64, because
he likes electronics and builds things for it, and...

He bought this Microline printer(used&cheap), that
he can connect to
the rs232c port(well, the almost rs232cport), but
he wants it at the serial port instead, and he
thought of building a buffer thing, a little circuit
that picks up bytes from the serialport, and sends
them on as an rs232c signal.
   He knows that this is
      - possible
      - shooting the sparrow with a cannon(i.e. lots of
        work to achieve a relatively "little" thing).

So if anybody had allready done a hack like this, he would
like to hear about it, and also he would like to hear
opinions about it(that it would be stupid to do it, etc.)

--
From the notorious
                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
Bed og arbejd !            University of Aarhus,  Jylland (!)
(Pray and work!)  AMIGA!  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.