15 Dec
2013
15 Dec
'13
10:09 a.m.
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:02:48 +0000 (GMT), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
Duell) wrote:
To bad the parallel port has also gone the way of the
serial port.
Indeed. IIRC those USB to Centroincs printer 'cables' don;t allow you to
toggle individual port lines like that.
They don't, at least not unless you
write your own driver, and even then
quite possibly not. I investigated these when I wanted to get my PROM
programmer working. They come with Windows printer drivers and don't
support ECP/EPP, so for any purpose except interfacing to a dumb
parallel printer they are useless.
That's why I said an old-ish PC. Meaning one with
a parallel port, not
(jsut) USB.
I got an old PC from a thrift shop for just about nothing. Plug in a
network card and it connects to my local network and I'm in business.