der Mouse declared on Monday 07 June 2004 07:45 pm:
> >> I have it connected to my PC with a standard printer cable.
> >
> > Well, that won't work for me since I don't use pee seas. (This is
> > ClassisCmp, remember, people use Classic computers here.)
>
> But peecee-style parallel ports are not x86-specific; I've got plenty
> of SPARCstations with basically-PC-compatible parallel ports.
>
> You may dislike them; you may even dislike them because PCs
> popularized them. But it's not fair to imply that they are a PC-only
> thing.
Centronics-style parallel ports existed before the PC.
Also, you could alway get/make a serial to parallel converter to connect
the printer to an RS-232C compatible serial port.
Pat
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Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 23:13:18 BST