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From: wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8
Subject: Using Atari's As Printer Buffers
Message-ID: <824@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Jul-86 12:35:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 20 12:35:09 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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To: Charles Green at C3 Inc.


Due to our editor being out at the moment, I cannot send email, just news.
At any rate, I do not understand your message to me.  I am not into software
to any great extent and did not intend to write any software, in fact was
not aware that it would take software.  In my Legend 1380 printer there
exists a 4k p.b. and I thought that somehow (thru the joystick ports?) the
1200XL could be made to look like another buffer.  To make a null modem
using the standard Atari daisy chain cables involves what pins?  

In the system that I had in mind, I would be using either two or three 1050
dd's, an 850, an Hayes compatible modem, and the Legend 1380 printer.  However,
I have several other setups that I might also want to use it on.  The other
setup would be either an 800XLE or 1200XLE with one or two 1050 dd's, an 1027
printer and a 1030 modem.  I have seen printer buffers available that merely
connect in and I though that with appropriate cabling something similar could
be done with a spare 1200XL unit.  

If anyone else has any ideas, let's open up the discussion on the net.

Thanks in advance,
--Bill--