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- From: golds_ss@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Stuart S Goldstone)
- Subject: Star printer questions...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.164653.9966@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:46:53 GMT
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- Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this
- question, but here goes. At some point in the future, I'll have to upgrade
- from my 8-year-old C128 (which, God bless its silicon soul, has never given
- me a day of trouble, even when the plumber dumped several gallons of water
- on it) to some more modern, more powerful computer. Now, I have a Star
- NX-1020 Rainbow printer, which I have connected to my Commie with a
- SuperGraphix (or however you spell that thing) interface. Is this a
- PARALLEL printer interface, or a SERIAL printer interface? All I know is
- that my printer has a Centronics port, so I have to use an interface to use
- it with my computer. But the guy at the computer store (I'm leaning toward
- Mac, but it's irrelevant anyway since I don't have the money to buy anything
- now anyway) said that that is only the kind of port and doesn't tell whether
- the printer is parallel or serial. Does anyone know which this printer is?
- And just so I know, is the SuperGraphix interface a parallel -> Commodore
- interface, serial -> Commodore interface, or both? (As you can tell, I'm
- clueless. I know the difference between a parallel and a serial printer in
- terms of the general means by which the data is transmitted, but I haven't a
- clue how to tell if something is parallel or serial...) Thanks for your
- help/input...
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