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John Campbell wrote:
> On 11/28/2011 07:16 PM, James wrote:
>
>> An old parallel port on an old pci card should do the
>> trick, if all you needs is a parallel port.
>>
>> Some of those old Laserjet printer could be set up across a serial
>> port, if nothing else works.....
>
> I'd also check your computer's innards for a parallel port header.  My 
> gigabyte board has several legacy headers, a parallel port is one of 
> them.
>
>

Mine does too.  It has a serial port, used for my UPS.  I bet it has a 
parallel port too, at least one anyway.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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