Floppy/Parallel Ports

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Tue Feb 16 20:24:42 1999

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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Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 20:24:42 GMT

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