25 Jul
2010
25 Jul
'10
11:03 a.m.
In article <AANLkTikQDmDao1UfuhfPb4rEAqgPwNKA22FxLZyfwse4 at mail.gmail.com>,
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> writes:
Absolutely (as far as I know). Somebody mentioned the FTDI chips that
essentially give you GPIO-like bit-level parallel I/O from a USB port,
you could probably use something like that -- with the appropriate driver
software o nthe hsot -- totalk to any device that was designed to plug
into a PC printer port.
-tony
[USB dongles] work *remarkably* well with even
old printers [...]
but not any other parallel-port device, AFAIK.
But there's nothing inherent in the USB spec that prevents this as a
possibility, its simply the kind of USB dongle that people have built
to date, right?