13 Apr
2001
13 Apr
'01
3:07 p.m.
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.
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