mike just get a old ibm mono vidio card with printer port. if you look for Microcomputer Research. Inc. card type MRI-PP-22 this is a ISA Enhanced parrallel I/O card with 2 printer address 3BC-378-278-368-268-358-258 or LP1 to LP7 or disabled. at a cost of about #20 plus postage. All the best Art. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike W To: Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:27 AM Subject: [OT] which Parallel port card > When using a parallel port PIC programmer what parallel card do > people use to protect the mobo port?. I can't find any ISA or PCI > parallel cards for sale. I've found plenty of multi-IO cards but none > of them allow the com/ide/fdd ports to be disabled AFAIK > thanks Mike W > -- > Life is dark and empty for the PIC developer without VirtualBreadboard > go look at it... www.virtualbreadboard.com