Re: CBM 8032P control codes

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 2001-08-05 05:56:29

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Marko Mäkelä wrote:

> I got some paper for my 8032P printer.  The paper has 2 lines high

Do you mean the 8023P printer?  I have that printe, but I can't find 
the documentation right now.

> A related note: I got a 8-bit ISA card by National Instruments that
> implements an IEEE-488 bus.  I even found Linux drivers for it, but I
> haven't tried it out yet.  Has anyone tried to interface Commodore
> IEEE-488 peripherals (disk drives and printers) with "real" IEEE-488
> networks?  Are there any incompatibility issues?  I might try to turn my
> spare PC (48 MB of RAM, 75 MHz Pentium) into some sort of a disk server.

As I recall, Commodore didn't implement the full IEEE-488 protocol.  They
did not allow for more than one controller to be on the bus, and the
peripherals could not initiate a session, but could only respond to one.
This made interfacing to IEEE-488 interfaces on HP instruments a little
touchy.





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