Subject: Re: 2 lpt ports for a laptop
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 15:34:50 AKDT
Andy Hall wrote:
>I have an interesting question I am stuck on.
>Back in the days of DOS companies used to make a parrallel port
>splitter. It was a 'Y' cable, one end connected to lpt1 on the
>back of a pc, went to a little V shaped box with a cable coming
>out of each end, lpt1 and lpt2, you would load up a little tsr
>that would capture all printing request and tell the little box
>which cable to send it to, lpt1 or lpt2.
>I need one of these for a laptop to run an old program on (obviously
>not windows) so I can have an lpt1 and lpt2 on a laptop.
>
>I know this is the aklug forum but right now
>Any help would be appreciated, Thank You.
>
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Strange, I don;t see this being very hard to construct....Consider it,
this thing may be hard to find.
Adam
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