zip drive 100 parallel port convert to USB?

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HAL - 20 Jun 2004 04:33 GMT

HI,

I have an external zip drive 100 parallel port that i use on my windows
PC but i am curious, can i buy some sort of USB conversion cable and
use it on my 450gHZ MAC?

Is there a parallel to USB cable out so if you have something that you
still want to use, like my zip drive, so you can get use out of it?

Any ideas?

thanks..

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Geoffrey - 20 Jun 2004 17:29 GMT

> I have an external zip drive 100 parallel port that i use on my windows
> PC but i am curious, can i buy some sort of USB conversion cable and
> use it on my 450gHZ MAC?

Nope.

The USB-to-parallel adaptors I've seen are usually made for printers and
don't really support bi-directional data transfer.

Leave that Zip drive on the PC, and get another one for your Mac :)

Geoffrey

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HAL - 21 Jun 2004 12:46 GMT

>> I have an external zip drive 100 parallel port that i use on my windows
>> PC but i am curious, can i buy some sort of USB conversion cable and
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thanks..

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Currawong - 28 Jun 2004 11:48 GMT

> HI,
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> :)

Last I looked, USB Zip drives were pretty cheap...and bus-powered too.

Amos

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zip drive 100 parallel port convert to USB?