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From: akm@uoregon.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using the printer port for input
Summary: Lanlink is based on this
Message-ID: <3523@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 89 02:20:01 GMT
References: <704@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <816@ttrde.UUCP> <9439@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: akm@drizzle.UUCP (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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It certainly is possible to use the printer port for input. Lanlink is a
software based network that uses printer ports to obtain up to .5 Mbit/S
data transfer.

If I remember correctly, the hardware for the printer port is set up as
an I/O port, and there is nothing to stop anyone from inputting data on
the ports.