[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Laptop with parallel port needed for Modela
- From: Jeff Kramer <jeffkramr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:58:57 -0500
We may be able to scare up a parallel card today amongst electronic junk
recycling day...
Jeff
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On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/13/2011 10:49 PM, Ed Paradis wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> I have an old Dell 166 mhz that is in fine working condition
>>
>> A 166MHz machine is probably too slow if we plan to run Inkscape on
>> it. If we can use it as a print server of sorts, than it'd be plenty
>> fast, I think.
>
> At this point it might be the best we can do. All the "modela server"
> needs to do is to cat a text file out the printer's device. Tonight, I
> can probably whip up a quick daemon to listen on some random high port,
> and send the received file to the parallel port. That way we wouldn't
> need X or anything too fancy on the modela server.
>
> Does anyone have an adapter for old laptop hard drives, to connect them
> to USB or a regular hard drive connector? This is an old hard drive, so
> it's a parallel-ATA drive, not a SATA laptop drive.
>
> --
> Matthew
>
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