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Now, where these days would you get a parallel port to plug it into?
by ak1394 8y ago
Now, where these days would you get a parallel port to plug it into?
- robin_reala 8y ago$23 on newegg: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158148 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681515...
- afandian 8y agoI seem to recall that the USB ones don't work for this kind of thing. From my teenage memories, you could bit-twiddle by writing to a memory address. I presume the USB ones use a UART that doesn't allow direct memory access, or precise timing, or something. The one linked in the parent is a PCI card, so this might not apply.
- tyfon 8y agoI still have a few computers from the 90s. One of them is running openbsd and I think it might be fun to write a driver for it actually. I see OpenMSX also support covox.
- throwaway2048 8y agoeven lots of modern motherboards still have serial and parallel port headers.