a give-away

[goddessfarmer]

We have a working HP PSC 500. This is a printer/scanner/copier. We have the original cables and software. Yes, it works. BUT it *requires* a old-style serial port, and hence has obsoleted itself out of our household. Free. Delivery available to Boston area.

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[chocorua.livejournal.com]

Tech support correction: It requires a parallel port (known in the dim past as Centronics-type).

[ariesd.livejournal.com]

I'm interested.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

didn't want to buy an usb-> adapter?

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[theloriest.livejournal.com]

How did I know that you'd probably be the one to respond first? *grins*

[ariesd.livejournal.com]

but of course

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

did buy adapter. it didn't work with it.

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

I'll deliver it *after* y'all move.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

what brand? i'll scratch it off my list :)

i've had AWESOME luck with Belkin - i have a usb hub that does serial (correctly for macs for gps), as well as printer and something else old and obscure (and useful) (keyboards/mouse i think)...

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[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

was a belkin. they were the ONLY mini-centronic to parallel I could get, then put on parallel to usb. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the parallel to usb that was the problem. The issue was somewhere in the mini-centronic to parallel. The unit came with mini-centronic to parallel, which works just fine.

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

The issue is that the fancy HP printer driver and scanner software knows its printer came with a parallel port, and the USB-to-parallel converters just make the printer look like a USB printer. I could generate text output via the USB converter, but it would have taken much more time than I wanted to spend making images print and other shiny stuff.