[Swansea Hackspace] An old PC with parallel printer port?

[Justin Mitchell]

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 08:24 +0100, Graham Owens wrote:
> Hi guys, does anyone have on old pc with a parallel printer port they
> are willing to donate/loan to the 'space for running the mini mill?

Any other requirements?
ie what do you drive it from, linuxcnc ? or something more arcane ?

and have you considered an upgrade to a modern controller board like a
RAMPS ? ;)

(ie something that accepts gcode instead of needing the host machine to
do the timing)