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

[Ceri Clatworthy]

I have a really old PC I was given, up my loft,

Will look tonight if it has Printer port ..

But I will try to order a USB to Printer port cable,

Ceri


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk>
wrote:

> 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)
>
>
>
>
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