| Rick Smith 2007-10-14, 6:56 pm |
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"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
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> "Rick Smith" <ricksmith@mfi.net> wrote in message
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> I was surprised to see this, Rick. The local equivalent of Radio Shack
(Dick
> Smith Electronics) here, sells conversion cables to port the old D9
serial
> ports to USB. Is it a parallel or serial printer?
Parallel and there are four devices that may be
connected: DeskJet printer, dot-matrix printer,
ZIP drive, and PROM programmer.
The PROM programmer is left over from my days
as an embedded systems programmer and, I
suppose, should be boxed for storage--along with
the EPROM eraser, the devices I used to program
(dating back to more than twenty years ago), and
various other odds-and-ends that, in some way,
defined what I was before I became disabled.
(I guess I am not ready for that!)
The ZIP drive was used for backup of the source
code for both the embedded C progams and the
COBOL programs used to process the data from
the device I programmed. I suppose I could
transfer those files to CD.
The dot-matrix printer may still be useful for
producing low-quality "B" size drawings (11" x 17").
The DeskJet for other printed output.
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