13 Apr
2001
13 Apr
'01
9:13 p.m.
see below, plz.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foust" <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)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:
Since when do
serial printers have a BUSY line at all?
Dick
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