usb-to-parallel port solutions

[dave at 661.org]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, drlegendre . wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at 661.org wrote:
>>>
>>> Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will
>> easily
>>> work with Linux?
>>
>> FT245??
>>
>> https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
>>
>> Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
>> settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
>> FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
>> out the tty driver on the top side.
>>
>> I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
>> Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.

> @Chris
>
> For printing use, I've purchased & used several of the ultra-cheap USB to
> Parallel cable devices, readily available on eBay for about $2.00-$3.00
> each.
>
> Plugs & play, no troubles at all on recent Linux (Xubuntu) and Windows.
>
> Is that helpful?

I intend to use it to drive the Spare Time Gizmos "Panda PDP-10 Display".

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