[fpc-pascal] Parallel Port Access with Free Pascal - windows

Paul Breneman Paul2006 at BrenemanLabs.com
Thu Jul 21 15:39:05 CEST 2016


On 07/20/2016 10:29 PM, Marc Santhoff wrote:
...
> Depending on your needs I'd suggest using a USB-to-serial-Adapter or
> similar. They are cheap and well supported (e.g. using CP2102). As an
> alternative FTDI has some nice USB-to-anything (including parallel)
> chips and they sell modules with mil spacing pins for easy
> breadboarding.

You can do *everything* via USB. :) I joked about this several years ago 
but then went searching and found USB to ISA slot and USB to PCI slot 
adapters.  Folks use these to run expensive data acquisition cards.

Regards,
Paul
www.ControlPascal.com




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