Re: USB to Parallel adapter?

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:05:46 GMT, shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net (Si
Ballenger) wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:15:06 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As a PC 'scope in my shed/workshop I use the 'ADC-200/50' from Pico
Technology.
http://www.picotech.com/high-speed-oscilloscopes.html
It's one of their older products and so has a parallel port connector,
not USB like the new stuff.

The ancient W98 PC in the shed is very unreliable I'm replacing it
with a mid-range laptop. But of course that won't have a parallel
socket.

Business grade laptops often have parallel ports (but more $$$).
I'd just get the old computer running again, or get a new fast
box and put a parallel port card in it. The USB to parallel
adapters only work with printers (no bit banging).

I would think that one of you bit-bangers could design a USB-to-LPT
device and then write software to take parallel port commands and
convert them to USB (and back). No?

...Jim Thompson
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