Alternative Hardware Design for Floppy Interface

Ethan Dicks wrote: Ahh. I meant that I thought all PC-type machines *with a parallel port* present it to the system as though it were an ISA-connected port (as in the original PC) and *not* a high-speed I/O port running at close to the system's main bus speed - i.e. using a new machine with a parallel port doesn't give you any speed advantage over using a machine from ten years ago with a parallel port. That could well be wrong, in light of what Chuck said. I know that more modern ports are capable of higher rates using different modes - but I thought those were purely for point-to-point data transfer between port and device, and not really suited to twiddling individual port lines at high speed. BICBW :-) Finding a new system with a parallel port is a separate challenge. I miss my old Thinkpad laptop as there's no useful ports on this crappy Dell :-( cheers J.