50 pin SCSI to 50 pin centronics

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Apr 13 20:13:16 2001

see below, plz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foust" <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: 50 pin SCSI to 50 pin centronics


> At 07:17 PM 4/13/01 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> >Oh, brilliant... Many serial printers (Epson, etc) have the busy line on
> >pin 11. So plug that into an Amiga serial port with a straight-through
> >cable and you'll cook something in the sound circuitry.
>
Since when do serial printers have a BUSY line at all?

Dick
>
> Yes, and back in the day, I seem to remember that Amigans did.
> The custom cable-making companies also did brisk business, due
> to the odd serial port and video ports of the Amiga. I also
> remember conflicts with scanners, where people would mistakenly
> plug it into the parallel port when it belonged on a SCSI port
> connector.
>
> - John
>
>
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