I'm considering the options I have in configuring my new system, and I'd
like some advice and/or insight...

One of the cards that came with the system is a SCSI/PARALLEL port card, and
--NOTHING-- is connected to it.  The system DOES have an external disk drive
cabinet, but it is currently connected to the SCSI connecter on the
"consolan" card.  It isn't too much of a "leap of faith" to realize that the
better overall configuration would be to place the external SCSI on the
SCSI/PAR card instead of on the CONSOLAN card.  What I'm curious about [and
a little gremlin in the back of my head keeps saying "you're dreaming..."]
is if the PARALLEL port can be configured [I think the gremlin is right...]

If indeed it's possible to configure the parallel port on this card for use
with 6.0 [or even 6.5], how would you go about it?  If a "driver" doesn't
exist, how "messy" is the current [or new] I/O system? [could I write my own
driver, in other words...] [I suspect, however, the greater roadblock to
"ability" would be "legality", that and "inability-to-obtain-source" ;) ]

Tom Emerson
Sr. Systems Analyst
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