On Thursday 30 August 2007 17:38, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 30 Aug 2007 at 16:20, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I can imagine someone cutting a Centronics
printer cable in half, and
asking how to connect it to the severed end of an HPIB cable...
Not out of the question in my book. A PC parallel port can drive a
single HPIB device just fine--all it takes is software... :)
And while they're not "PC"s, Osborne computers typically had a
"Printer/IEEE"
port...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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