Commodore PET CBM Centronics Parallel Printer Interface ADA 1800 - Basement Find! - Episode 2201

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Dave Bradley - 8-Bit Commodore Man

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Published on May 27, 2024 10:15:06 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0i3K09aTf8

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I was in the basement and found this adapter interface to let the Commodore PET computer use a Centronics Parallel printer instead of one of the IEEE printers sold by Commodore...it also allowed for the disk drive to be connected as it has a pass through...I was reading online that you have to have the disk drive on for this to work, but that does not sound like a terrible thing as you would have likely loaded something into the CBM from the disk drive or whatever program you are using to print might need to do some more reading...I remember the great sound of a who classroom of computers being turned on by the breakers...computers chirping...disk drives chattering...printers resetting...those were the days...