Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization

2010-01-18 Thread Udi Finkelstein
I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based. Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all), I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it with a USB connection. Is there a solution that

Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization

2010-01-18 Thread ik
2010/1/18 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based. Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all), I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it

Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization

2010-01-18 Thread Ori Idan
2010/1/18 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based. Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all), I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it

Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization

2010-01-18 Thread sara fink
There are plenty of usb to parallel port. http://www.google.com/search?q=usb+to+parallel+portie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:he:officialclient=firefox-a you can find on ebay as well. They are very cheap at ebay.