Standard serial/parallel ports for new PC

[Kevin Cozens]

Greetings.

The one thing my new computer (HP computer with Core 2 Duo processor) doesn't 
have is either a serial or parallel port. I know there are USB adapters to 
provide these types of ports but they aren't useful to me. I have some 
programs which require being able to do bit-bashing on the ports. I also want 
to do use the parallel port for interfacing with some electronic circuits, and 
I can use it with my old laser printer.

I would like to get a single board that has a 9-pin serial port compatible 
with a standard 8250/16450/16550 chip, and a 25-pin parallel port compatible 
with a standard 8255 chip, and that use standard IRQ's for each of the serial 
and parallel ports on the board.

The boards I have found are a in the $60 to close to $100 but seem to share a 
single IRQ. Since they do that, I would question their compatability with the 
ports found on older computers. Anyone happen to know of a source for such a 
board? If I can't get both ports on one board, I could go with just a parallel 
port board for now.

The board(s) need to be Linux compatible. A board that would work but comes 
with some custom Windows driver isn't likely to be useful. The alternative 
would be to make one myself but that is likely to be a hassle to interface 
with the PCI bus used in the current day machines.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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