6 Jul
2010
6 Jul
'10
1:52 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, MikeS wrote:
Seems to me all you'd need is a stock
off-the-shelf Parallel>Serial
converter feeding into a Serial<>USB converter, no?
AND another PC.
That will work fine for transferring files from a non-USB computer to a
USB computer. Although many of the off-the-shelf Parallel>Serial
converters make assumptions about the computer's parallel port and are not
always reconfigurable for all.
The original post was about how to connect a 286 computer to a "modern
printer".
The 286 machine does not have a USB port.
Off the shelf Serial<>USB converters will NOT work unless they are
connected to a computer with USB. They will NOT work connected to a USB
printer without a computer that has USB.
kk