+eebuckeye Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Any idea? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krslam Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 It's a printer interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Correct. Centronics for a parallel printer. It gets its' 5V from the cassette port (the little card edge connector with the single wire on it) I have a similar one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brain Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Wow. Have we really moved that far into the future that centronics parallel is so unknown? :-) (Not trying to diss the OP, it's not a bad question, just surprised. JIm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Perhaps most Centronics interfaces would be associated with the userport instead of going through the IEC port for compatibility reasons, thus the confusion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share Posted February 7, 2019 Right.. and it came with a modem so that threw me off. :-) Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 A Parallel Modem. LOL. It's funny, that was the port to have back in the day. The serial port was too slow. Now, USB Has endured for 21 years... (At least, I had an old win98 laptop that had one.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motrucker Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 But, almost all printer interfaces used the serial port, from the well known (?) Cardco +G to the Xetex Super Graphix.. There was a GEOS printer interface that used the user port, but not many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboTrucker Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Most centronics adapters were IEC based specifically because of software compatibility. They converted Vic 1525 codes to Epson or ibm Proprinter and used the IEC port to properly support the standard commodore printer device numbers, 4 and 5. The user port is device 6 or 7 (can’t remember which is it and which is the cartridge port at this moment.) Kind of hard to find software that will print to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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