Date   : Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:30:07 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Centronics to Serial

Steven John BASS wrote:
> I'm wanting to capture the printer output from an old Z80 computer, that
> only has a Cenronics (parallel) port, to the serial port on my BEEB.
 
Would be hugely simpler to do Centronics to User Port. Data lines
to data lines, Strobe to one of the CB lines, ACK to the other CB
line. Then, some code on the Beeb that read from the User VIA every
time the incoming Stobe was strobed.  I'm sure I've seen somebody
do this before.
 
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