#centronics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #centronics, aggregated by home.social.
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PCB designers / engineers: Hey, hardware people - parallel buses are a pain.
Serial is easier to handle. Can you do that?IEEE-1284 and RS-232: Okay, here's USB!
IDE/ATA: We can do that! SATA.
SCSI: Cool. Here's SAS.
PCI: ... how about a really fast serial connection, but we have a bunch of them side-by-side?
#bus #ComputerBus #DataBus #parallel #serial #SignalPropagation #IEEE1284 #RS232 #ATA #IDE #SCSI #SAS #PCI #PCIe #Centronics
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PCB designers / engineers: Hey, hardware people - parallel buses are a pain.
Serial is easier to handle. Can you do that?IEEE-1284 and RS-232: Okay, here's USB!
IDE/ATA: We can do that! SATA.
SCSI: Cool. Here's SAS.
PCI: ... how about a really fast serial connection, but we have a bunch of them side-by-side?
#bus #ComputerBus #DataBus #parallel #serial #SignalPropagation #IEEE1284 #RS232 #ATA #IDE #SCSI #SAS #PCI #PCIe #Centronics
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Para la colección de reliquias: el manual original de la Epson Stylus Color 600, de 1998.
Imprimió miles de páginas esa maquinita, conectada con puerto paralelo DB-25 a la compu, y con un conector que se llamaba Centronics, de 36 pines.
No sabía lo que era el USB.
Tantas páginas, mitad ES, mitad PT, y creo que no ha sido leído por nadie 🤔
BTW, debe estar en una caja guardada ahce décadas... calculo que se habrán secado los cabezales 😅
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Para la colección de reliquias: el manual original de la Epson Stylus Color 600, de 1998.
Imprimió miles de páginas esa maquinita, conectada con puerto paralelo DB-25 a la compu, y con un conector que se llamaba Centronics, de 36 pines.
No sabía lo que era el USB.
Tantas páginas, mitad ES, mitad PT, y creo que no ha sido leído por nadie 🤔
BTW, debe estar en una caja guardada ahce décadas... calculo que se habrán secado los cabezales 😅
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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).
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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).
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Printing ASCII Art with an Arduino and a Vintage Printer
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Printing ASCII Art with an Arduino and a Vintage Printer
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This is a parallel printer cable from the peak cool cables era, isn't it a lot prettier than boring USB?
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This is a parallel printer cable from the peak cool cables era, isn't it a lot prettier than boring USB?
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I guess it’s not today. Couldn’t find why strobe on #centronics port wouldn’t go low on pr#1 (😂how to escape that) #apple2 #lpt #retrocomputing