Re: Dragon questions

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From: jon bird
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:29

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In article <3B6996D1@MailAndNews.com>, Jan Vanden Bossche 
<jan80@MailAndNews.com> writes
>I just found a Dragon/32. Nice machine, good keyboard.
>
>I noticed that there was a parallel port, but not a standard connector on
>the
>computer side. Can I make my own cable to connect to a standard centronics
>printer ? Is it a straight ribbon cable ? Wich side is up, where is pin 1 ?
>
yes, there is a rather manky scan half way down this page:

http://www.onasticksoftware.co.uk/pcs_parallel.htm

key things are the data lines, ground, strobe and busy straight to the 
printer. ack isn't used by the dragon.

>Are the joysticks compatible with those of the Tandy Coco ?
>
yes.

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