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From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Note takers
Message-ID: <1893@atari.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 18:14:22 GMT
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garyf@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Gary Friedman) writes:
>In article <16168@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> ganoe@cs.arizona.edu (Bill Ganoe) writes:
>>I got an Atari Portfolio a couple of weeks ago, ...
>>The software does everything necessary to make your PC's
>> parallel port bidirectional.  
>You can turn a PC paralel port bidirectional?  With SOFTWARE?  How is
>this possible?

The software does not make any of the bits of the parallel port bidirectional
(although this is possible with many integrated chip PC clone chip solutions)
but instead uses the available input and output bits of the standard parallel
port to form a bi-directional link to/from the Portfolio.

Jim Tittsler, Systems Engineer, Atari Corp.