Onyma Report This Comment Date: June 15, 2010 12:15PM
Nope
Quixotic Report This Comment Date: June 15, 2010 04:31PM
With some crafty driver writing and small mods, it "Possibly" could
be made to work,
Power would be the biggest concern, not sure if you could get enough to power
out of the parallel port to drive even the smallest of USB flash drives.
You could re route power from the inside of the computer if you never intended
to use that port it anything else.
Second would be transfer rate, not sure you could even talk to the USB device at
a speed it could utilize.
I have seen some hardcore EE types do some insane (In both practice and concept)
things.
USB only needs 2 pins for data, 2 for power, the data paths could be made, the
last hop to the USB device is a PS2 adapter with 6 pins, two for power would be
just right)
I have seen two computers share files over barbed wire, the question essentially
comes down to spend countless hours proving a concept or just accept because it
fits does not mean it works.
So as it stands, NO, if you REALLY wanted to, most likely.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: June 15, 2010 05:24PM
Holy cow, I gotta whole new 2000' roll of barbed wire I was gonna run some new
fencin with, but .... I ain't buyin anymore damned cables ... EVER
Onyma Report This Comment Date: June 15, 2010 08:51PM
Should just note that the above contraption doesn't plug into a Parallel Port.
It has female pin holes so it plugs into a DB 25pin male port... aka old school
25 pin Serial. The only way it could be engineered to work would be to wire the
required pins in the DB25 to the right pins on a USB port. Would certainly make
some of your tech friends turn their heads
In the mid-80's I managed to get 2 Commodore PETs to communicate through a home
made adapter between their IEEE ports. Bit of code and you could type on one
screen and watch it come up on the other / visa versa. A ton of work for the
worlds shortest distance chat program
But it was a great experiment!
Quixotic Report This Comment Date: June 15, 2010 09:58PM
Well then, I stand corrected, if it plugs into a male...
Then it is a significantly more queer contraption than I had first thought it to
be
