Date   : Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:53:55 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Brian Widdas <brian@...>
Subject: Re: ZIP drives for BBCs

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

> In article <385A2D00.19113BB4@...>, Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
> writes
> 
> >Is the Beeb's parallel interface bidirectional? 
> 
> It's not, but the user port is.  I see no reason why a Zip drive
> couldn't be connected to the Beeb; the sticking point might be obtaining
> the specs from Iomega for their (no doubt) proprietary parallel data
> transfer protocol.

Shouldn't be a problem - it's in Linux. So if all else fails, you could
always read the kernel source...

Brian
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