eebuckeye #1 Posted February 7, 2019 Any idea? Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krslam #2 Posted February 7, 2019 It's a printer interface. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zonie #3 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brain #4 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carlsson #5 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eebuckeye #6 Posted February 7, 2019 Right.. and it came with a modem so that threw me off. :-) Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zonie #7 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
motrucker #8 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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