> From: "Erik E. Fair" (Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:30:46 -0700
> Message-ID: <15122.864088246@cesium.clock.org>

> Well, aside from Ethernet interfaces and (duh) printers, what else
> can you hook to a parallel port these days?

Um, a parallel port is the perfect interface for many sort of homebrew
hardware hacks.  Even if the hardware demands some kind of
handshasking, this can usually be satisifed with a one-shot sitting on
a couple of the lines.

Whether any particular parallel port is suitable for such use, I don't
know (except for a Q-bus card or two, and I don't know if any NetBSD
port supports them; we don't even have any Q-bus ports aside from the
MicroVAX, do we?).

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