BBC printer port (ever used for anything else?)

Making the cable is not a problem for me. Heck, it's straight-through IDC, although the manual does suggest using twist-n-flat cable. Since I've never seen a Beeb pritner cable that was twist-n-flat and since the internal cable is plain ribbon, I don't think it matters that much if I keep the cable short. Well, I wasn't really a Beeb hacker in the old days... And I don't claim to be a programmme now (the hardware side, on the other hand...). But I susepct I'll be able to find something or write something. I asusme that at least some of the loading utilities will work if the particular sideways socket has to be selected to enable writing to that chip. In other words you have to load the sideways ROM select register with the number of the back you want to write too (thus disabling BASIC and DFS, and ...) I am liable to end up with 2 sideways RAM banks (the B+ board can take 32K memory devices, 62256s are cheap, it's just a matter of plugging one in and connecting up the write enable line), so I'd want to be able to select a particular one for loading. Oh, right :-) It depends on what you want to do with it. The problem is that a 40 track image is not a lot of use to somebody with 80 track drives (and vice-versa). -tony