Re: Parallel Zip Drive, One More Time

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

 (aiiadict@gmail.com) writes:
> Apple inc. parallel card (PIC) is bi-directional...
> so is grappler...
> there may be others
> 
Plus weren't there various parallel I/O cards that used things like the
6522 VIA (Versatile Interface Adaptor) that were inherently bidirectional,
though they'd have to be initialized properly.

I would have thought a far bigger problem was cooking up a driver for
the zip drive.  The actual work of writing one, but then perhaps it's
one of those things that would take up so much RAM space that it wouldn't
leave much room for other things.  I don't know, but that seems harder
than getting a bidirectional parallel port.
 
   Michael

> 
> Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
>> So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. No use hanging on to those
>> parallel zip drives, dopesn't look like the Apple II can make much use of
>> them.
>