[accesscomp] Re: braille blazer.
- From: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:16:16 -0700
So you have a few problems here.
First, USB on it's own is not compatible with parallel. USB uses a serial type
connection and parallel obviously uses parallel. Parallel is very old school.
I haven't used a parallel printer since 1990 or so. Now, they may make a
parallel to USB adapter but I doubt this would be very usable. One thing you
might be able to do is install a SERIAL / Parallel port card in your PC. These
cost sub $15 and include a serial port and parallel port which would work.
HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Ward
To: Accessible Computing
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 2:35 PM
Subject: [accesscomp] braille blazer.
Hello I was wondering would the braille blazer work with a usb cable since it
does call for a parallel cable, don't know if my computer has a area for the
cable to be plugged in to since the cable is kind of big, would a usb cable
work since one end would plug in to the computer that would be the usb part and
on the blazer on the parallel port the big part would be plugged in. I had to
replace my cable for the print printer just by getting a USB cable, I wonder
would this apply to the braille blazer as well? Also would Duxbury pick this up
since am running windows xp?
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