On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, michael brown wrote: *>They are slowly but surely eliminating every device that even looks like *>it sits on an ISA bus. The ISA bus is a pain but a parallel port does not appear on a ISA bus in more modern chipsets, it is PCI mapped. There are parallel ports on Alpha machines, Suns etc. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics