This is a message about an old experience I had in 1992. I DO have the
printer still.
I bought an Atari 825 printer in 1992 for $19.00. At the time that was a
killer price for a dependable dot-matrix impact printer. I wanted to
include them as a free incentive to buy our MC Trading clone computers. I
wired the cables according to specs and fried the printer. I mean FRIED
the printer when I connected it to the clone. I got a replacement from
the vendor and tried again after checking the cable specs for both the
clone and the printer. All signals etc were perfect on the original cable
so I jacked it into the clone and FRIED another printer.
I then went to Cables and Chips around the corner in Miami and bought a
cable by thier spec (they do wierd cabling for a living and have specs
from God himself). I fried a third printer.
Glad to give pinouts for the Atari 850 printerface on which the printer
works perfectly, the clone interface that fries it, and the printer
it'self.
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Jeffrey S. Worley
Technical Services
Bits & Bytes Computer Services Inc.
1979B Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
828-684-8953 - voice 0900-1700 five days
828-687-9284 - 24hr fax
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
Technoid_at_Cheta.net
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Received on Fri Apr 28 2000 - 03:03:25 BST