USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

Huw Davies huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Sat Mar 19 21:59:26 CST 2005


On 15/03/2005, at 10:31 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
> Parallel port then. I'd add "Portable across multiple platforms" which
> basically means "parport or nothing". Every desktop and laptop machine 
> I've
> seen has had an IEEE-1284-compliant (or compliant to a reasonable 
> degree)
> parallel port.

Well my preferred laptop (ie the one I spent my money on, rather than 
my work one) doesn't have a parallel port. Of course, I can always use 
a Linux box instead.

Additionally, aren't there issues with "modern" Windows operating 
systems and parallel ports?

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