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Default How to Network a Parallel Port Printer?


"David Brown" wrote in
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Jim Thompson wrote:
I there any simple way to adapt a parallel port printer to a

network?

I'd like to move a printer to a closet and get it out of the

way.

...Jim Thompson


If you've got an old dinosaur PC lying around, you could turn

it into a
print server. The last machine I used for that was a P60 with

64MB ram
- it also works as a file server.

P60 wasn't that also known as the "fire hazard"
that *was* just a joke (although true), sorry could not resist ,
robb