Mastodawn

Gestern am Retro Abend hab ich einen alten Drucker wieder in Betrieb nehmen können, da mir ein Freund für den Preäsident Printer 6320 das passende centronics Kabel geschenkt hat :-) Der Drucker wurde in der DDR entwickelt und sehr günstig in die Bundesrepublik verkauft. Und ich habe meinen Drucker damals an einem Atari ST betrieben.
#retrocomputing #ddr #gdr #Nadeldrucker #printer #dos #ms-dos #centronics #K6313 #präsident-6320 #atarist #vintage #vintagecomputing #berlincreators.de

Amin Girasol Sep 4

I've got this vintage #Centronics to #Atari #SIO connector. The last time I tried it (last year sometime), I could LPRINT a line from BASIC, but line endings weren't correctly interpreted. (Unsurprising; Atari uses $9B as its line ending.)

Coming back to it today to see if the adapter was configured to interpret line endings correctly, I mostly got timeout errors in BASIC and twice only, some garbage, while trying to print.

(Printing via the parallel port on a Thinkpad 760CD running Windows NT4 works perfectly. So it's not the printer.)

Any tips on how to proceed further with troubleshooting this connector?

#learning #electronics #dotmatrix #atari8bit

Erik May 14

Going through the shelves. Look at this cute analog pen and wash drawing of some sort of digital house? With centronics port and floppy bay no less. Some illustration work from 1991. #illustration #pen #ink #centronics #house #brain

Christian Gudrian Oct 27, 2024

I'm currently trying to revive my old #Fischertechnik #Computing interface for the #C64. Back in the days I've scavenged its user port connector (to build a #Centronics interface for our StarLC24-20II). Luckily they are still available, though they fit very tightly.

But beware! The pinout differs! While this plug's upper row's pins are labelled 'A' to 'L' the user port is missing the 'G' and 'I' (to not confuse them with the '6' and '1' in the bottom row).

Oh. And top is bottom (and vv).