On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Andy Pugh wrote: >2009/11/18 Bryan Mumford <[email protected]>: > >Firstly, 4000nS sounds very good. I would wait for more opinions >before trusting to mine though. > >> There is an optional docking base for it with a hardware parallel >> port. As in this unit: > >Another (cheaper) alternative might be something like >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310094829919 > Another thing I would be very careful about is the access mechanism these devices require in order to actually access the hardware of the port. I have heard, but not experienced, horror stories about access times of many milliseconds because the hardware is not direct access, but off on a slow, asynch bus protocol they use to talk to these docking stations. Like old USB.
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