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From: ejk47@ihuxn.UUCP (Ed Kufeldt, ihuxn ejk47)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 printer (?) ports
Message-ID: <585@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 21:54:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 21:54:58 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 04:13:25 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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For interfacing your printer I highly recommend the Card?+G
interface from Cardco.  It is a micro-processor controlled,
intelligent, serial to Centronics 8-bit parallel interface
that you can plug into the serial jack on your disk.  This
interface does the VIC ASCII to standard ASCII conversion for
you automatically.  The inter- face has 8 dip switches that
will allow you to setup up different modes that will support
most printers.  One of the switches allows you to set the
address to device 4 or 5.  The prints are accomplished
by opening the device and using the CMD or the PRINT#
commands.  The +G option is the graphics option that will
support the Commodore's graphic set.

I hope this does not sound like I work for Cardco, because
I don't.  I am just one of their satisfied customers.  They
have a phone number in case there are any problems that you
can call 5 days out of the week. (I have used this number,
and found that they were prompt, courteous, and answered
all my questions satisfactorily.)  The Cardco? and the Cardco?+G
interfaces are available at mail order houses such as Protecto,
and places like Toys-R-Us.  The Cardco?+G interface sells for
about $69.95 and the Cardco? is about ten dollars cheaper.

The end result, is that, this interface will save you the headache
of writing a printer driver routine to control your printer.
Because the interface plugs into the serial bus, you're free
to use the parallel bus in the user port for other things.

               Ed Kufeldt
               AT&T Technologies
               ihuxn!ejk47
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