Floppy/Parallel Ports

From: Richard W. Schauer <rws_at_ais.net>
Date: Mon Feb 15 19:34:13 1999

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Roger Sinasohn wrote:

> Does anyone know of any early (pre-1990) computers, other than the early
> Toshibas, that used the parallel port to access an external floppy drive
> (or other external storage device)? Thanks!

The Epson Equity LT laptop (model Q150A) did this, but you have to flip a
DIP switch to tell it what you're hooking up to it. It's from '87 or '88.


Richard Schauer
rws_at_ais.net
Received on Mon Feb 15 1999 - 19:34:13 GMT