GuyTechie wrote:Jorpho wrote:FFXIhealer wrote:Much easier and faster than using the old parallel external drive that was our FIRST foray into ZIP disks back on the old Packard Bell Windows 95 days. I even remember we chained a scanner off of that, then hooked a printer up to THAT. 🤣 And they all worked!
Wouldn't that have been a SCSI external drive? I was not aware you could chain parallel devices.
Most parallel port accessories has a port for a printer. This way you're not sacraficing the (usually) one parallel port for the accessory and have nothing for your printer.
So we all remember the pport Zip drive has a pass-through. I'm willing to bet the pport scanner has a pass-through as well.
Yep, I had my scanner, printer and zip all daisy-chained together through parallel connections though I don't remember the order. Those were the days!
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