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

[Ray Wells]

Damien,

You could pick up an old computer with a parallel port for much less 
than $250 ;-)

Ray vk2tv

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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