>From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
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>On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
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>> You know I have a reader that I connect to a printer port on a PC?
>> You can borrow that any time you want.
>
>I know, but I'm on a roll. This interfacing stuff is fun :)
>
>Was there any special magic required to connect it to the parallel port or
>did you just feed the outputs into the pins of the PC port?
Hi
It depends. Not all parallel ports are created equal.
Many are bi-directional though. There are about 3 different
flavors. As I recall, I connected the parallel data out
to the data lines and ran the strobe to one of the status
input lines. There is a start and stop signal that uses
to start and stop the tape as well. I can give you a copy
of my code.
There is a web page,
http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm , that
has several links to parallel port stuff. Since you are now
at the hardware level and on a roll, this is a good place
to look.
I don't recall if the two drives that you loaned me were
parallel or serial outs. I think one was a parallel though.
Dwight
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