Floppy/Parallel Ports

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Mon Feb 15 23:17:09 1999

> 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!


(-: Roger, that's a very foolish thing to say on Classiccmp. For startres:

An "Early" computer does _not_ mean "pre-1990". More like "pre-1960".

Lots of pre-1990 machines used a parallel port to talk to floppy disk
drives. HP and Commodore machines used HPIB/GPIB for example. And yes,
that was the printer port on those machines too.

Need I go on?

Philip. :-)

(I think someone else has already given a sensible answer, so I have no
qualms about posting the above)
Received on Mon Feb 15 1999 - 23:17:09 GMT

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