Re: I hope parallel ports won't become obsolete

Buying a usb zip drive is another possibility i hadn't thought of,
though i'm not sure it will be backwardly compatible with 100mg disks,
though probably they are.


Impmon wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2005 14:46:21 -0700, "mormave" <aug22005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I have important files stored on various 100 meg zip disks, and I have
> >some five year old parallel port zip drives that I still used on my
> >(obviously) old pc's. I plan to buy a new pc or two (maybe a desktop
> >and notebook) next year...i still don't need a new one yet. I'm just
> >wondering, do pc's still even come with parallel ports? (i don't even
> >know why they would anymore, except for people like me).
>
> The new PCs and new mobo are still being shipped with parallel port on
> it but it may become obsolete because no one's making parallel port
> device anymore these day. Printers, scanners, external drives, etc
> are all using USB or Firewire.
>
> >What can I do
> >if pc's don't come with PPs?...any kind of "adaptor" i can use...to USB
> >or something like that?
>
> ZIP drive is available with USB hookup and you could pick one up
> really cheap. Forget USB to parallel adapter, they almost never work
> with any parallel port devices other than printers.
>
> If you don't want to pay (IIRC) $70 for new USB ZIP drive, you can
> still pick up a parallel port PCI card to add to your future PC. I've
> seen them for around $10 new and probably less on web stores and eBay.
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