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

[Andrew Gilbett]

Hi Damien,

You can get multi port PCI serial/parallel port cards, which can be
picked up fairly cheaply from computer stores.
I understand where you are coming from my new i7 computer had neither
parallel or serial and one of these cards set me up with 4 serial
ports (I know you are talking about parallel ports), which I have
found to be more stable than USB adaptors.

Thanks :-)
Andrew Gilbett
andrew.gilbett at gmail.com



On 28 April 2010 19:37, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:
> On 28/04/2010 7:22 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
>> Damien,
>>
>> You could pick up an old computer with a parallel port for much less
>> than $250 ;-)
> *grin* true, but then my PC count goes up again ;)  I'm just about to
> pull the P4 out of the garage to take down for my folks, in the june
> holidays, and that was the idea of buying the toughbook - works nicely
> in front of the telly for general browsing, but 'rough' enough to bounce
> about the workbench with a heap of usb->serial adapters plugged in to
> talk to my radios/modems/whatever :)
>
> So yeah, if Gary can find the model numbers of the adapter(s) he's found
> to work, sounds good to me :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> DG
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