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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk hookup via parallel port...?
Summary: Brooklyn Bridge supports parallel port
Message-ID: <89@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:17:58 GMT
References: <1676.259f524a@cc.helsinki.fi> <344@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Reply-To: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Organization: SLV Systems Group, Ben Lomond, CA
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In article <344@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>In article <1676.259f524a@cc.helsinki.fi>, stickler@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>> Does anyone know of a hard disk which can be hooked to a 
>> non-hard disk laptop through the parallel (or serial) port.
>
>The parallel option is particularly unlikely, since most PC pll ports
>are only designed for output, to a printer or suchlike.
>
>If anyone can prove me wrong, I'd be pleased to hear of it..

The Brooklyn Bridge (White Crane Software) supports *very* fast access via
the parallel port.  *IF* you can dedicate another machine to host the hard
disk for you, running the Brooklyn Bridge between them might be a solution.
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