dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) (01/04/89)
A few weeks ago I saw mention, somewhere, of a company that's making a
Mac II card that supplies a Centronics-style parallel printer interface.
Naturally, I can no longer find the reference. Has anybody out there
seen such a beast?
I'm aware of the Grappler, which includes a serial-to-parallel
converter; I'm more interested in a solution that would bypass the
Mac's serial port entirely and provide a direct parallel path into a
printer that supports the Centronics standard interface. Ideally, the
interface card would come with a modified serial-port driver for the
Mac, which would "spoof" programs that opened the printer port and would
redirect output to the parallel port.
Any hints? Company names? "See booth XXX at MacWorld"?
advTHANKSance...
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USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (01/07/89)
Look in the back of MacWeek for a tiny ad from Creative Solutions (they wrote MacForth also). They sell some cards, one of which does what you want. Dove recently introduced a board too. They aren't advertising, but I think it's available. I have no further information about these products. Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.uucp