RS232/Centronics converter - a serial to parallel and parallel to serial converter with handshake lines

RS232/Centronics converter elektor october 1984 Nobody can seriously claim that the continuing progress in the field of electronics and computers is neither necessary nor useful. Progress rarely comes without any drawbacks, however, and, particularly as regards computers, this often manifests itself as new equipment not retaining compatibility with older machines or standards. One of the most frustrating aspects of this incompatibility is the difficulty encountered when trying to use some peripheral equipment with a computer where one of these has a parallel and the other has a serial port. This interface is designed to counter just this difficulty, thus making it easy to interconnect an RS232 and a Centronics port. RS232 / Centronics converter a serial to parallel and parallel to serial converter... with handshake lines The value of this parallel to serial and serial to parallel converter will be obvious from the list of characteristics given in the table here. A look at figure 1...