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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re:  Tower parallel printer port
Message-ID: <1976@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 90 21:44:19 GMT
References: <82@texbell.swbt.com>
Sender: news@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM
Reply-To: wescott@micky.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Organization: E&M-Columbia, NCR Corp, W Columbia, SC
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In article <82@texbell.swbt.com> Mike Nolan writes:
> 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.

While the IBM PC Centronic Parallel Port may have become the de-facto
standard, it was not clearly so when the feature was first offered on
the Tower.  Nor does it obviate compatibility requirements within the
Tower family.

--
	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM