Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!spl1!iitmax!ed
From: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Commodore printer on a PC?
Message-ID: <2102@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 89 00:05:56 GMT
Reply-To: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Lines: 18


I would like to hook up my old Commdore MPS-802 near letter quality
dot matrix printer to my new PC clone.  Commodore printers, unfortunatly,
do not use the standard IBM serial or parallel ports.  They use a modified
(serialized) version of the IEEE-488 buss.
 
I would imagine that SOMEWHERE there has to be a company that makes a board
for the PC that will allow one to use a C= printer on a PC.  (Ideally it
should convert PC-ASCII character codes into PET-ASCII codes.)  Printing
graphics is not necessary, but if it did allow this, it would be used
and appreciated!

*PLEASE* if you have any leads, E-mail them to me.  If there is enough
of a response, I will post a follow-up to this group.
 
Thanks,
   ed@iitmax.iit.edu   or/and   SYSED@IITVAX.BITNET
   (Ed Federmeyer)