[OZAPRS] Slightly OT: How to get a parallel port these days?

[Gary Stern]

Why not a USB > Parrallel Port adapter ??

(Much cheaper than $250 !!)

Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> 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
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