<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>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? :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>DG</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>