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Re:The void left by the parallel port by billforsternz on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:18PM (#11640750)
Indeed. As a software guy I was sufficiently proud of my hardware effort that I neatly organised everything as a flying lead coming out of the Mephisto complete with strain relief and a tidy professional looking connector. Not as good as a mounting the connector flush somehow, but pretty good for me. It's still in my cupboard and it still worked well (as a chess computer) last time I tried it, although after 25+ years I wonder whether the EPROM is due to start shedding bits. Trying it out as a 68K dev board is more problematic - for reasons discussed in the main article - occasionally I consider having a go but these days I usually find life is too short for those sorts of things.
Re:The void left by the parallel port by fit2rule on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:52PM (#11641572)
Great story! The rejuvenation of your EPROM sounds like a job for a Bus Pirate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_Pirate