Those should be real ports. They probably connect through the PCI buss
as a PCMCIA card would.
For those looking to PCMCIA/Card Bus, be careful. There ARE cheap cards
that connect through USB rather than PCI. The true PCI cards DO work.
David
On 1/11/13 2:42 PM, Rick Karlquist wrote:
Mark Spencer wrote:
Joe:
I've been down this road and ended up buying two "lease return" HP
desktops for a nominal price that included on board parallel ports to deal
with some amateur radio gear required a real parallel port.
As others have mentioned there are fairly recent IBM / Lenovo laptops that
also featured parallel ports (or at least their docking stations did.)
Regards
Mark Spencer
I have an HP laptop with docking station and the docking station
provides serial and parallel ports. The question is: are these
"real" ports (just like built ins) or do they behave as USB dongle
versions? One could easily imagine that the docking station did
nothing more sophisticated that emulating a USB dongle, but then again,
it does access the docking connector so there is some hope it connects
directly to the bus.
Rick Karlquist N6RK
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