15 Feb
1999
15 Feb
'99
3:17 p.m.
Does anyone know of any early (pre-1990) computers,
other than the early
Toshibas, that used the parallel port to access an external floppy drive
(or other external storage device)? Thanks!
(-: Roger, that's a very foolish thing to say on Classiccmp. For startres:
An "Early" computer does _not_ mean "pre-1990". More like
"pre-1960".
Lots of pre-1990 machines used a parallel port to talk to floppy disk
drives. HP and Commodore machines used HPIB/GPIB for example. And yes,
that was the printer port on those machines too.
Need I go on?
Philip. :-)
(I think someone else has already given a sensible answer, so I have no
qualms about posting the above)