On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Rodrigo Real wrote:

> In practice what I need is to connect a cable from equipment I
> mentioned to the computer and simulate a printer behavior.

Sounds like a perfect application for a PIC and maybe a 24LCxxx serial
EEPROM for buffering data, doesn't it?  Or you can still find parallel to
serial converters, they used to be quite common and still are pretty easy
to find.  Of course by the time you order one and have it shipped, you
could build a PIC solution to do the work for you!

http://www.homestead.co.uk/px5830.htm
http://www.compucable.com/peripheral_sharing/embed.asp?stuff=se_spicc_body.html
http://www.telebyteusa.com/catalog/products/109A.htm

Dale

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