18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
10:56 a.m.
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 07:32 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
If you're not dealing with very high-speed
devices, (e.g. voltmeters, etc.)
and only talking to a single device, a simple bidirectional printer port
can provide most of the functionality of GPIB/HPIB. ?Sometime in the
mid-80's, I released a bit of code (may still be in SIMTEL) for a DOS TSR
to drive an HP Plotter through the printer port. ?
It wasn't an original idea--I saw the printer port on the Victor 9000 used
to do the same thing. ?Victor would even sell you a cable for that purpose.
And all of the Osbornes I've ever encountered called theirs a "Printer/IEEE"
port...
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