Re: Parallel zip drive on a IIe

[John VW <appleiieman@charter.net>]

I am not a coder (yet).  Used to be 25 yesrs ago but it has been too 
long and not enough skill at it.  I was just wondering if it would work 
with the newer apple parallel card and if anyone had done something like 
that already.

John Van Winkle
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Bill Garber wrote:
> "John" <applemann2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> : Anybody ever thought about using a parallel
> : zip drive on a IIe or IIgs?
>
> I've thought about it a lot. I have schematics
> for several homebrew devices that work on PC's
> parallel port, but the big problem will be the
> software driver. If you can program fairly well
> in Assembly, then by all means, find a parallel
> adapter card for the Apple II that is bidirectional
> and have at it.  8o)
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