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

[ct1dmk]

Hi Nigel,

I missed your post before my reply to Joe, so I made no mention to your 
suggestion.
I have those and they are not a printer thing, they really
work low level. The list of programmers and bit oriented stuff
that was reported to work well is big and surely there are more
stuff that works that is not in the list...

Joe,  take a look a check if you app is reported good:

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/USB2LPT/liste.en.htm


Cheers.

Luis Cupido
ct1dmk.



On 1/11/2013 5:03 PM, GandalfG8 at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Joe
>
> As per other replies I was going to suggest this won't work because  USB
> adapters are for printing only and my solution would be to buy an old 486 or
> early pentium laptop and use that, I've bought several over the past few
> years  for really silly money on Ebay for this very reason, but I have come
> across what  might be a possible solution....
>
> _http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/USB2LP
> T/index.html.en_
> (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/USB2LPT/index.html.en)
>
> I can't vouch for this, just found it via Google, and although the  drivers
> are downloadable you need to buy the adapter and have to email for  prices,
> but it might be worth a try.
>
> My preferrred solution would still be the old laptop:-)
>
> Regards
>
> Nigel
> GM8PZR
>
>
> In a message dated 11/01/2013 13:09:45 GMT Standard Time, jltran at att.net
> writes:
>
> Not sure  where to ask this question but thought I would start here.
>
> Is  there a way to connect a parallel port to a computer via USB?  Not  a
> device that shows up as 'USB Print Support' but, instead, shows up in
> Device
> Manager as an LPT port?  I have been able to do it via PCMCIA  to Parallel
> Port adapters but I have never found a USB device that would do  this.
>
> My goal is to connect a parallel port chip programmer via USB but  the
> software only looks for LPT ports.  It works with PCMCIA to  parallel port
> adapters but I haven't solved the puzzle yet with a USB  connected device.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Joe
>
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