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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Converting parallel to serial port
Message-ID: <10828@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Apr 90 15:22:11 GMT
References: <7881@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <7881@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4662b@prism.gatech.EDU
(BRANHAM,JOSEPH FRANKLIN) writes:
>
>What I'd really like to do is this:
>
>make a little board which plugs into where the chip which drives
>the parallel port which can make my parallel port act like a serial
>port at the flip of a toggle switch.

You can find serial to parallel and parallel to serial converters from multiple
sources. The price ranges around $40. Pick up a copy of Computer Shopper and
look around.

Valentin

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