centronics 733 printer (what the hell?)

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 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- 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(a)Cheta.net -----------------------------------------------------------