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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!intrnode.demon.co.uk
  2. From: John Rumm <john@intrnode.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Parellal Zip Drive with Amiga 1200
  5. Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 23:15:38 GMT
  6. Organization: Internode Limited
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  14. Mathew Hendry (m.hendry@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
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  16. : How do you intend to access data lines which just _aren't connected to
  17. : anything_ on the Amiga parallel port? By building a hardware adaptor connected
  18. : to another port? Yucky, messy, wasteful, and very difficult to implement.
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  20. Great idea folks! - how about using a PC as a dumb SCSI to parallel port
  21. converter? See they are good for something!
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