Marten wrote:
>I thought that the mac printer port was a serial port. How did they
>do that? I hope not by also delivering a nubus parallel printer port
>card, because that wouldn't be much help on a Classic II.
>
>Marten
>
>>Yes, Orange Micro used to make a Mac to parallel cable and software. If you
>>can find one or its equilivent they work fine on the old Mac's.
> >Gary
A serial to parallel adapter is a fairly simple device. They've
been around for a long time. I used to have one on a Commodore 64
with a dark-side dot matrix printer, years ago.
Essentially, is just stores up 8 bits, then sends them out all at
once on the parallel port. Stores up the next 8 & sends them out...
Cheers,
Andrew
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