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Jim Wilkins Inscribed thus:

On May 30, 9:55Â*am, Karl Townsend
wrote:
I'm needing a parallel port in this computer to hold the hasp or
dongle for my CNC control software. ...
Any suggestions?

Karl


You could try a USB-parallel adapter, but if the dongle expects to
find the port at its BIOS I/O address you may be SOL.

jsw


I'm afraid I must agree with Jim ! I have a pp dongle that insists on
LPT1 3BCh IRQ7. Interesting that most pp printers use LPT2 or 3 on
278/378.

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