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Re: Mystery IIe card



On 14 Jun 1997 01:33:23 GMT, taxman@aa.net (G. Johnson or K. Hartman)
wrote:

>I recently was going through a shelf of IIes at my school (What a shame 
>, just sitting there unused, no room in the IIe lab). One of them had a 
>card in it labeled something to the extent of "Parallel Interface". It 
>had a conector that took up on of those big connector holes in the back 
>of the IIe. The connector looked like a Mac SCSI connector.

It's very probably a parallel printer interface.  In the good ol'
days, all of 'em were shaped like that--Centronics plugs.  Just about
every PC printer is parallel (they use an LPT port).  Very few are
serial (requiring a COM port).
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