6 Nov
2015
6 Nov
'15
11:10 a.m.
On 11/5/2015 9:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at
661.org wrote:
I'm interested in this, but on the parallel side is it 5V logic? How do
you connect to the pads? Does USB provide all the necessary power?
Doug
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port
solution that will easily
work with Linux?
FT245??
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
out the tty driver on the top side.
I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.
Chris