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- From: Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: MPS 801 to IBM serial port
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 16:51:39 GMT
- Organization: California State University, Chico
- Message-ID: <4fnr6r$b19@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- Lois Finello <afn12742@afn.org> wrote:
-
- > On 12 Feb 1996, Kenneth A. Turner wrote:
- >
- >
- > (snip)
- > > I read in Gookin's DOS FOR DUMMIES that the serial port for the
- > > IBM PC can be used for some non-IBM printers. So going on that,
- > > and if an adapter can be found, can the IBM run a Commodore printer >
-
- At
- funet.fi/pub/cbm/c64/emulation/transfer
- there are two files called CBMPR11.ZIP and CBMPR11.README. The readme
- file is a single page and has a diagram for the cable to connect the
- C= printer to the PC. The zip file, when unzipped, generates a file
- that runs on the PC called CBMPR.COM and takes care of generating
- the correct output to the cable.
-