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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re:  Tower parallel printer port
Message-ID: <82@texbell.swbt.com>
Date: 9 Feb 90 04:15:48 GMT
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Resender: towers@texbell.swbt.com (NCR Tower Mailing List)

Doug Lucy writes:

> We've just installed a 650 with 1 HPSIO card. In trying to attach
> a printer to the system, it appears the parallel port does not
> use the "standard" PC DB-25 pin outs to Centronics. Does anyone have
> the pinouts or should I have bought the cable from NCR in the first
> place?

Two sites in our area just asked the same question. (I was one of them.)
According to our local field engineer, the Tower parallel printer cable 
IS different from a PC Centronics parallel printer cable.

Yet another example of a standard that is honored by NCR more in the
breach than in the bargain.


Mike Nolan                          (uunet!frith!upba!tssi!nolan)
Tailored Software Services, Inc.
Lincoln, Nebraska