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From: plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Amiga Parallel Port
Keywords: parallel port
Message-ID: <3959@rayssdb.ray.com>
Date: 20 Dec 89 14:49:18 GMT
Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI
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The documentation on the Amiga parallel port is sketchy at best.  The 
information I seek is with regard to the STROBE and BUSY signals on
the port.  Are these signals handled by the hardware or must the signals
be dealt with via software instructions?

My father owns a unit which interprets weather satellite broadcast information
and sends the information to a printer.  He'd like to be able to connect the
unit to the Amiga 1000's parallel port and write a program to print the image
to the monitor.  The documentation makes it very clear that the parallel port
is "usually used for output to a printer."  The port's pin-outs are also     
provided in the documentation.  Unfortunately, although this startling information is wonderful, it just doesn't change the baby's diapers.

If anyone can provide the information on the parallel port, or even better
if anyone has already written a software module in this vein, it would be
a wonderful Christmas present.

Thanks in advance....

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