5 Jul
2010
5 Jul
'10
1:29 p.m.
On 5 Jul 2010 at 7:59, Glen Slick wrote:
As I have said many times, that depeends on where you are...
Yes, you are confused. Tony's problem
statement to which I replied
was capturing print data from a vintage PC to a USB capable host PC,
not printing from a vintage PC directly to a USB printer device.
Well, to be sure, you can get DIP packages like the Elexol USBMOD4
parallel-to-USB transfer module that would entail little more than
wiring up a cable.
But there are so many scrapped PCs available with USB and (bidirectional) parallel ports, what would be the
point of building
anything?
You;ve not seen my workbench ;-). I doubt I could find space for a PC +
monitor+keybaord alongide any classic machbine I was working on.
Quite apart from the fact that the simpler something is, there less there
is to go wrong....
-tony