Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port.
> > Perhaps some of the more esoteric/non-apple models have such a
> > thing. I suppose you could go out and buy a PCI parallel port I/O
> > card that might work....
>
> no Macintosh has a paralel port. i have however seen third party
> paralel port cards that can be put in NuBus macs. don't know about
> PCI.
PCI I/O cards are pretty common. One brand I remember seeing is Lava.
They definitely have parallel adapters. I'm 99% sure the pport cards
were available for PCI. MacOS probably wouldn't want to have anything to do
with them, as usual, but this shouldn't stop Linux from using them.
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