It says it is a printer port in the book. It does have a weird connector on it tho.
Val says she does use the USB port to connect to the printer. I thought she was using the printer port. We supply White Sands Missile Range, Sandia National Labs and Los Alamos. When we order, we buy what we want for us at the same time. We have to supply what they call COTS, or Comercial Off The Shelf. The desktops we assemble here, the laptops are always Dell, or Macs. I am by no means a computer expert. I know you have been around here for longer than I have on the Xastir group, and have always followed your advice. Steve/WM5Z Just because you say I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't watching us. Jason KG4WSV wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Steve Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I actually have 2 new Dells here, and a Mac laptop. They all have a >> serial and a parallel port. >> > > I'd like to see that mac laptop with a parallel port. Apple has, to > my knowledge, never used a parallel port on _any_ mac, much less a > laptop. They used an RS422 serial connection for printing in the good > ol' days of the original Macintosh, and eventually migrated from there > to USB for printer attachment. > > There were some old mac desktops with DB25 SCSI connectors, though. > > >> As to the serial ports not available, you should have gotten a kit that >> connects those serial headers on the mother board to the DB9 connector, >> > > Dell currently has our bid, and that's an extra item that must be > ordered. Maybe the non-education/government stuff is different. > > -Jason > kg4wsv > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
