@Chris For printing use, I've purchased & used several of the ultra-cheap USB to Parallel cable devices, readily available on eBay for about $2.00-$3.00 each.
Plugs & play, no troubles at all on recent Linux (Xubuntu) and Windows. Is that helpful? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist <chr...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), d...@661.org wrote: > > > > Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will > easily > > work with Linux? > > FT245?? > > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841 > > Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other > settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the > FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes > out the tty driver on the top side. > > I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as > Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that. > > Chris > -- > Chris Elmquist > >
