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- > : A friend of mine has borrowed this old Mac Classic, and she wanted to borrow my
- > : Canon printer which I use with my A500 - BUT!
- >
- > : The Mac only has one port which looks like the parallel port on the Amiga, and
- > : this port is reserved for an external diskdrive.
- > : The printer port is an ugly little round thing!!
- > : Does any one out there whether this can be done at all, does there exist any
- > : kind of adaptor or anything??
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- Serial to parallel converters exist for this purpose.
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- > The printer port on a Mac is a serial port, and cables should be
- > available at a Mac dealer or through mail order. Of course, you'll need
- > a serial port on the printer, too. Then you need to find a printer
- > driver for the Mac, which is usually a humiliating and difficult task.
- >
- > It may be easier to save the graphics to a file on the Mac, then transfer
- > it to the Amiga by terminal program, then print it from the Amiga. If
- > both the Mac and the Amiga have high-density drives (unlikely), you can
- > transfer the files on disks.
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- Even without high-density drives, you can transfer file on disk. You can
- even transfer them on MS-DOS formatted 720k disks if your Amiga
- doesnt have Mac-reading capabilities, assuming your Mac has 7.5 or the
- AccessPC or equivilent extension.
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