Good luck! I have bought three different USB-parallel adaptors, but none would allow generic programming of the parallel output using RB on a Mac. Maybe they would on a PC, I don't know. Keyspan's UP-6C came the closest, in that it would work with OSX, but it only supports specific printers, and I could get no help for Keyspan's tech support in figuring out how to use it to define the parallel bits from RB. They do not support a generic printer.
I finally decided to use ActiveWire's USB-I/O board $59 at http://www.activewireinc.com/. He has been promising an OSX driver for a few years now, but Dave Keck supplies a $6 driver that works better for OSX than Activewire's does for OS9 (http://www.docdave.com/apps/activewire.html). With this driver and the ActiveWire board, you can control (or read) 16 bits of IO simply by writing to and reading from the RB serial port. If you are working with a PC, you should not have any trouble finding equivalent hardware for that platform. For example, see http://www.accessioproducts.com David Graham 3> Or, is there someone that has got a USB solution to this age old question of the OLD and Tired out LPT and Serial ports? HELP! Thanks Jonathon _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
