{"id":13690,"date":"2021-12-13T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=13690"},"modified":"2021-12-13T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:25:53","slug":"how-do-i-transfer-data-using-a-parallel-port","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/how-do-i-transfer-data-using-a-parallel-port\/71443.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Transfer Data Using a Parallel Port?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an old Compaq computer from the earlier 1990&#8217;s which is connected to a very valuable piece of equipment in my lab. In fact the computer (and printer) came with the piece of equipment and due to proprietary software restrictions I am currently unable to just connect a new computer directly to the piece of equipment unless I buy new software. As this computer has a DOS system any analysis done has to either be handwritten in a notebook (as seen on the screen) or printed (but the printer just broke). After either option there is data entry into Excel etc in a newer computer with Windows XP. Neither option is horrible, but it would be nice to streamline it a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I have been asked to figure out a way to still be able to use the old software, but retrieve the data so that it can more quickly (and reliably) be analyzed. At the back of the DOS computer the only available port is a parallel port &#8211; what Im wondering is (a) if its possible and (b) how I can transfer data using a parallel port from a DOS computer to another computer with Windows XP?<\/p>\n<p>Other related questions:<br \/>\n(1) What equipment\/ type of cord do I need to connect parallel ports?<br \/>\n(2) How do I get a DOS to send signal from the parallel port to the other computer? Do I just need to push &#8220;print screen&#8221;?<br \/>\n(3) I have a Labview program available for me to use to retrieve the data on the newer computer &#8211; any suggestions on how I need to read the data incoming into the newer computer?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much in advance for any assistance in this. I do not have a huge amount of computer knowledge so I apologize if any of my terminology is not completely accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":6},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-13690","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}