6 Jan
1999
6 Jan
'99
1 p.m.
<I was going under the assumption, probably a false one, that all
<"parallel" ports that were able to talk to a printer w/ a centronics
<connector, conformed to a standard, and that a parallel zip drive
<needed nothing above and beyond that to work. Of course figuring out how
<to talk to the drive is another story as well.
Severely untrue. PCs use a simple port with little to no hardware
handshaking, however many other use hardware hand shaking so there are
few if any readable lines for data return. Few non pc system implement a
bidirection or EPP port and that is not require to do basic centronics
interface.
Allison