by AltairClone » July 6th, 2018, 8:44 pm
The Clone already supports two of the common Altair parallel ports through a Clone serial port: The output and status port on the 88-LPC and the output and status port on the 88-C700. Similarly, it would not be difficult to “act like” the 88-PIO parallel interface board as well. However, electrically, it would still be a serial port, not a parallel port. It could not properly interface to a parallel device like the OP-80A paper tape reader.
Mike