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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Haven't come across a parallel port on any of my laptops or desktops (including my Fujitsu TabletPC dock) which hasn't worked with the SBIG to date. IEEE1284 has been the omni-directional standard for many years. Older parallel ports used to be unidirectional and capable of out-going comms (to a printer) only.
We'll see. It's a new device - so I'm hoping for full 1284 compliance.
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I had to buy a new second hand puter for my observatory and bought a HP desktop for ~$200. The parallel port on it worked for my ST9E but had lots of excess random noise. This would average out but made photometry difficult.
To get around this I bought a parallel port PC card and put it in the puter. It is recognised and works with my printer but the SBIG refuses to talk to it. It seems it only likes "0378" or "0278" as the address and the cards address is different to this.
Hopefully this device works for you as this would be a good option instead of another parallel port.