[time-nuts] OT - USB to LPT Adapter - Does it exist?

David McGaw n1hac at alum.dartmouth.org
Fri Jan 11 19:48:19 UTC 2013


Those should be real ports.  They probably connect through the PCI buss 
as a PCMCIA card would.

For those looking to PCMCIA/Card Bus, be careful.  There ARE cheap cards 
that connect through USB rather than PCI.  The true PCI cards DO work.

David


On 1/11/13 2:42 PM, Rick Karlquist wrote:
> Mark Spencer wrote:
>> Joe:
>>
>> I've been down this road and ended up buying two "lease return" HP
>> desktops for a nominal price that included on board parallel ports to deal
>> with some amateur radio gear required a real parallel port.
>>
>> As others have mentioned there are fairly recent IBM / Lenovo laptops that
>> also featured parallel ports (or at least their docking stations did.)
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark Spencer
> I have an HP laptop with docking station and the docking station
> provides serial and parallel ports.  The question is:  are these
> "real" ports (just like built ins) or do they behave as USB dongle
> versions?  One could easily imagine that the docking station did
> nothing more sophisticated that emulating a USB dongle, but then again,
> it does access the docking connector so there is some hope it connects
> directly to the bus.
>
> Rick Karlquist N6RK
>
>
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