[OZAPRS] Slightly OT: How to get a parallel port these days?
Damien Gardner Jnr
rendrag at rendrag.net
Wed Apr 28 18:40:49 EST 2010
Hi Folks,
Slightly OT question, but I figured plenty of folks here will have run
up against this one.. Finally went and bought myself an Eprom
programmer so I can fix a few things around the workshop... Didn't
read the blurb on it totally correctly, and turns out the USB is only
for power, not for programming.. So it still requires a parallel port
for programming.. Which leaves me a bit flummoxed - PC's don't HAVE
parallel ports these days.. - and especially not the toughbook I use
in the garage.. a PCMCIA parallel card seems to be around the $250
mark, so thats out of the question.. So I thought I'd ask - how are
folks using their eprom programmers these days?? :) Is there some
nifty USB->Parallel adapter that actually *works* (there seem to be a
few around for printers, but I'm not sure that they'd be pin-for-pin
compatible to the old standard, and would work for an eprom
programmer?) ? Or am I going to have to dig out an old PC just for
programming? :)
Cheers,
DG
Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net - http://www.rendrag.net/
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