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From: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: How to use C-64 printer as RS-232 compatible?
Keywords: Commodore hardware available
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Date: 21 Feb 89 14:10:18 GMT
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In article <1153@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu writes:
>I used to use a VIC-20 as a converter to do this.  A Centronics
>parallel connector was wired to the user port, and the VIC ran a quick
>program to accept port input and output it to serial with
>ASCII/PETSCII conversions.

Now that my oldest son has left home, I have three VIC-20's (and one
35K-byte memory/bus expander, and three 1541 disk drives, and one
1526 printer, and four 300-baud modems, several B/W CRT's, and gobs
of books and other stuff) that he told me I could sell "for a song"
(say perhaps $25's, $25, $135's, $100, $20's, $50's, and $??'s, each,
respectively, and I'll pay shipping to contiguous USA).

You ask "and what is my son using now?"  Well, he kept a couple of
C-64's, with disk drives, a 1200-baud modem, the color monitor, a
couple of high-quality printers, and all the games.  He's NOT hurting
for Commodore stuff--just couldn't take it all with him when he went
to college!
--Myron
Myron A. Calhoun, PhD EE, W0PBV, (913) 532-6350 (work), 539-4448 (home).
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