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Have dongle but no parallel port
Name: Paul Firos Date: April 24, 2007 at 20:43:12 Pacific OS: VISTA CPU/Ram: INTEL Product: DELL
Comment:
I have a security dongle designed to be plugged into a parallel port. I bought a new laptop with no parallel port. Any way to convert a USB port into a female parallel port?
Name: RTAdams89 Date: April 24, 2007 at 21:18:29 Pacific
Reply:
Yep, search ebay for "parallel usb".
-Ryan Adams http://members.cox.net/rtadams89/
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Response Number 2
Name: Paul Firos Date: April 25, 2007 at 15:33:45 Pacific
Reply:
thank you. I wish all problems were so easy to solve!
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Response Number 3
Name: joejoh Date: May 16, 2007 at 01:13:07 Pacific
Reply:
I bought a USB port replicator to resolve the problem. However, then I found that some software only detect physical parallel port but not the virtual one created by the replicator.
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