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Date   : Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:16:29 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Centronics to Serial

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> Then, program the User VIA to latch input data on CB1 and generate
> an interupt. On the interupt, store the received byte in a buffer
> somewhere. In the foreground copy data from the buffer to disk,
> etc.

Seems perfectly workable - far better than messing with serial conversions!


> Digging through old code shows we were discussing exactly this on
> the list in May 1999!

Well, that was a whole DECADE ago! :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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