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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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 Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: What does a port replicator do? |
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| What is the advantage to having one? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| You can have replicated ports? |
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Hank Scorpio
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| You can have replicated ports? |
The only thing I can think of is a port emulator. I had an old flatbed scanner I'd gotten from a buddy of mine that required a SCSI card, but I didn't have one. A SCSI emulator lets you treat a printer port like it's a SCSI port. It's slower, but for the amount of scans I was doing that really didn't matter. |
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Demophobe
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:38 am Post subject: Re: What does a port replicator do? |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| What is the advantage to having one? |
(pōrt rep��li-kāt-&r) (n.) A device containing common PC ports, such as serial and parallel ports, that plugs into a notebook computer. The purpose of the device is to allow you to easily attach a portable computer to standard, non-portable devices such as a printer and monitor. For example, if you use a computer both at home and at work, you could set up both work areas with a port replicator. Then, you just plug in your notebook computer to the port replicator at either location and you're ready to work.
Most notebook computer manufacturers offer a port replicator as an additional option. A port replicator is similar to a docking station, but docking stations provide additional slots for adding expansion boards and storage devices.
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