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- From: msokos1@umbc.edu (sokos mark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Pinouts Help?
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 19:21:23 -0500
- Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Message-ID: <4jcm23$c1b@umbc9.umbc.edu>
- References: <4jchft$buu@kendaco.telebyte.com>
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-
- In article <4jchft$buu@kendaco.telebyte.com>,
- gsutton <gsutton@kendaco.telebyte.com> wrote:
- >I'm not a Commodore user yet, however I have a question perhaps one of
- >you readers might be able to answer.
- >
- >I have this old Okimate 10 printer. It was designed to interface with
- >Commodores and Ataris. However, I would like to be able to splice
- >together cables so it can work on both my Tandy CoCo2 and Apple IIGS;
- >both of which use serial ports.
-
- The c64 "serial port" is not an RS-232 type of serial port. It is a
- serial daisy chain (I forget the IEEE standard it almost conforms to).
- Don't know about an Atari. I suspect that a simple pin to pin conversion
- is not going to help you.
-
- >Can anyone tell me what the pinouts for the Okimate-10 are? I gave
- >Okidata a call, and they told me that since the printer was designed to
- >interface only with Ataris and Commodores, that they didn't have any
- >pin-data available for making custom cables.
-
- The commodore serial port, which goes to the disk drives, printers,
- and anything else on the chain, is as follows:
-
- 1 _SRQIN_
- 2 GND
- 3 Serial ATN in/out
- 4 Serial clock in/out
- 5 Serial data in/out
- 6 _Reset_
-
- >Thanx in advance for any help.
- >Otter
- >gsutton@kendaco.telebyte.com
-
- - Mark Sokos (msokos1@gl.umbc.edu)
- Electrical engineer, computer geek (er, programmer) in training,
- no-talent bum musician (have bass, will travel), and perpetual student
-