Re: Iomega Parallel Zip?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5192cc$4rd@news2.widomaker.com>,
Richard Sarner <rsarner@widomaker.com> wrote:
>Out of curiosity, would an Iomega Zip parallel drive work with a GS and a
>parallel card? It wouldn't be the ideal way to go, but would it work at
>all?

   You need a bidirectional parallel card/port to support non-printer
parallel devices. Unfortunately, it appears like 95% or more of the
printer cards for the Apple II didn't meet this requirement. (Only the
ProFile card was one, and those are fairly rare)

   Then, someone would need to write a driver. From what I understand,
the Parallel Zip is a scsi device with a scsi <-> parallel converter
internally, and then a reverse driver on the PC side.

Nathan Mates

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