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| | | (...) I think it could probably work with the printr port. But what I would do is get a serial to printer port adapter or buy another wire which ever is cheapest. I have a wire that runs out the serial port with a 25 pin(i think) connection then an (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Rainer Balzerowski
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| | | | (...) Don't try this at home kids !!!...!!! NO ! This can't work !! The printerport is as parallel port and not a serial port. The availablity of the IR-tower is checked by using the serial handshake line. This can't work with printerport ! (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Martin
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| | | | (...) BTW, this is not true on all hardware, but usually is true on PCs, which is of course what we care about right now. Serial ports are male (IE, have pins in them rather than holes) because part of the RS-232 specification is that you should be (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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