Now that we've pretty much solved our second computer problem (the old computer was a Pentium 2) with a state of the art laptop and have migrated most of our important programs I considered what our next concern should be. We now have 3 printers since we got a multi-purpose machine the last time we needed a scanner. But two of the three printers are hanging off the old computer and shared with the new computer. If the old computer decided to die on us we'd need to move those printers over.
It occurred to me that one of the printers (our trusty LaserJet 6p) only has only a parallel connection as it came out before USB was that popular and we weren't thinking of networking printers. In trying to find a solution I found that we had already purchased a parallel to USB cable but had never hooked it up.
Then this morning the parallel port stopped working. Because I had been working on the problem I found the USB cord and plugged it into a USB port. After a short period of recognition and handshaking, the printer was again up and going. And it no longer is a parallel port printer so it's lifetime has been significantly extended.
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