Re: parallel card

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Joe Kohn <joko@GotSpam?crl.com> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> >Michael can use Harmonie with the serial port right now
> >without spending extra on a parallel card.
>
>Sure he can.
>
>But, with Apple II Parallel cards going on csa2.marketplace for as little as
>$10, why bother?

Well for one thing some folks don't like to deal on that
newsgroup.  I just bought up the serial port possibility
because I've been in email contact with Michael about
upgrade of his IIGS and I get the impression that he'd
like to see the printing system working before
tweaking it for optimum performance.  It looks like he
could use his ImageWriter II cable with the 4MP's
serial card too.

>If you (SuperTimer) continue to advise folks about connecting an HP printer
>to the IIGS serial port, could you at least add the disclaimer when you next
>do so that it's very, very, very slow and that using a parallel connection
>is four times faster?

Sure, that's not a problem (it should be pretty obvious
though since parallel by definition has more data lines
than serial).