Once upon a midnight dreary, Tony Duell had spoken clearly:
>Machines that want to use the PC printer cables. These may only implement
>enough lines to support a printer and not all the strange ones (that may
>be used for mass-storage units), as explained above
The Atari ST falls under this category. You can use a PC's printer cable,
but the actual lines weren't reprogrammable (or accessable) like the PC's
were, so parallel Zip drives and their ilk are not usable thru the built-in
printer port on them.
HTH,
"Merch"
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 20:24:42 GMT