CARDCO

CARDCO was a computer peripheral company during the 1980s in Wichita, Kansas, United States. CARDCO was well known in the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 community because of advertisements in numerous issues of Compute! magazine and availability of their products at large retailers.[1]

There were severe shortcomings of early Commodore printers, so CARDCO created the Card Print A (C/?A) printer interface that emulated Commodore printers by converting the Commodore-style IEEE-488 serial interface to a Centronics printer port to allow numerous 3rd-party printers to be connected to a Commodore 64 or VIC-20, such as Epson, Okidata, C. Itoh.[2] A second model, a version that supported printer graphics was released called the Card Print +G (C/?+G), supported printing Commodore graphic characters using ESC/P escape codes. CARDCO released additional enhancements, including a model with RS-232 output, and shipped a total over two million printer interfaces.

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References

  1. ↑ Compute! on Internet Archive
  2. ↑ "CARDCO Card Print A (C/?A) - Printer Interface For The Commodore 64 and VIC-20". COMPUTE Magazine (34): 251. March 1983.

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