Timeline for Parallel Printer Output to Serial Input Adapter for Terminal Capture
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| Jul 29 at 6:04 | comment | added | the busybee | Whoever told you to edit your question to add your answer was wrong. The help center is the ultimate source of expected usage, please read relevant pages. | |
| Jul 28 at 11:05 | history | edited | Fixer | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 140 characters in body |
| Jul 28 at 10:58 | comment | added | Fixer | OP here: I tried to answer the question and you people told me to edit the original posting. I edit the original posting and you people tell me to post the answer below. Which is it then? Do I ask a question and post an answer, or do I ask a question and edit the original posting? Mildy Frustrated. | |
| Jul 17 at 6:21 | comment | added | the busybee | If your edit is meant as a solution to your issue, please revert it and post an actual answer. This site is not a forum. | |
| Jul 17 at 4:31 | comment | added | dirkt | I am confused about your edit. If you have a device where you know it works taking parallel as input (your "Black Box S/P Converter IV"), why are you asking the question? | |
| Jul 16 at 20:25 | history | edited | Fixer | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Found answer, added links. |
| Jul 16 at 18:34 | comment | added | jpa | Like user3840170 said, there exists products such as retro-printer for this purpose. But it is conceivable that a normal usb-parallel adapter could work when combined with suitable software. The easiest answer however is to just buy a product designed for the purpose. | |
| Jul 16 at 12:50 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 16 at 11:52 | history | edited | Fixer | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Vague Title and Found the Device? |
| Jul 16 at 10:13 | comment | added | user3840170 | Is this a shopping question? Or is it asking how those devices work? Can you change the title to something less vague? | |
| Jul 15 at 22:29 | answer | added | supercat | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 15 at 20:39 | answer | added | davolfman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 15 at 19:23 | history | edited | Fixer | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Updated for even more clarity? |
| Jul 15 at 16:11 | comment | added | dirkt | PC motherboards that have a parallel port via Super I/O chip following the Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) standard or later are bidirectional. In the USB class definition for printing devices, the "Bulk In" pipe is marked "optional", so I guess for USB it depends on the specific hardware. | |
| Jul 15 at 14:05 | comment | added | Justme | You are basically asking which modern ready-made solution to buy. There might be none, but any $5 Arduino kind of MCU board with some connector soldering and few tens of lines of software writing could do it. | |
| Jul 15 at 14:02 | comment | added | zu2 | I have experience using a parallel-to-Ethernet adapter on a Linux PC. In that setup, a dedicated device driver was required. From this experience, I believe bidirectional communication via the parallel port is possible. However, I think achieving what you're attempting would require custom software on both the sending and receiving ends. Reference: retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/15028/31787 | |
| Jul 15 at 13:54 | history | edited | Fixer | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited for clarity |
| Jul 15 at 13:10 | comment | added | Raffzahn | It's not really clear what you intend to do. Capture output from a parallel port as received by the printer? Also what kind of hardware is used and what exactly did you try. If it's about capturing print output than a printer port on a second PC should be able to be used for capture (assumed it's a somewhat modern IEEE 1284 type implementation). Of course you might need to create a fitting cable and software (or simply write it). | |
| S Jul 15 at 12:56 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 15 at 12:56 | history | asked | Fixer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |