Re: Nibble copy for other formats?

[osgeld <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:18:40 PM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 3/12/2013 5:33 PM, osgeld wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:45:35 PM UTC-5, BLuRry wrote:
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> >> With parallel ports disappearing, [...]
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> > or a well behaved usb paralell port adapter
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> Not a viable solution with bit-banging operations (such as we're 
> 
> discussing here)

I dont see why not, its not quite as simple as a onboard legacy port, but they have all the same pins and capabilities, instead of direct bit banging you interface though the USB driver, otherwise those exact same pins driving your printer wouldn't drive your printer.

anyway just a thought