Date   : Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:58:39 +0000
From   : Gareth Boden <Gareth.Boden@...>
Subject: Re: ZIP drives for BBCs

Joel Rowbottom wrote:
> 
> Matt Callow wrote:
> 
> > I have been thinking recently about trying to use an
> > Iomega ZIP drive (parallel port version) with a BBC.
> 
> Is the Beeb's parallel interface bidirectional? If not, I'm not sure it'd
> work.

Certainly SuperDisk drives are capable of being used over the standard 2
or whatever-it-is inputs of 'unidirectional' parallel ports. I presume
the Parallel IDE or SCSI chipsets are pretty standard in this respect.

Gareth