[NBLUG/talk] Bluetooth?

[Robert Hayes]

Boy, can you believe I went right to this link in my bookmarks.
I'm some kinda wonderful. I amaze myself.

I stand partially corrected. The $50 is just the parallel printer half of the 
equation. It assumes you have a bluetooth source, but there is a link to 
their USB bluetooth adaptor.

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Bluetooth Parallel Port Printer Adapter

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 The MP-PA01 is a low power and high performance communication product which 
transforms your parallel port printer into a Bluetooth enabled printer. The 
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Bluetooth devices without using any printer cable.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/micro-plus-store/blpaprad.html


On Friday 27 May 2005 06:05 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 17:40 -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> > There is a very cool dongle I've lusted over (quietly, and chaste from
> > afar) that plugs into the back of your printer. It's counterpart is a USB
> > dongle similar in size and shape to a thumb sized solid state disk.
>
> I recall having seen that (or something very similar) recently, but I
> could never get a straight answer when I asked if it was compatible with
> Linux.  The packaging specifically says that it's designed to work with
> USB printers, but from the looks of it, it might just as well work for
> lots of other types of USB devices.  It would be SO cool if I could plug
> the printer end into a hub instead of a printer...
>
> Maybe I can smooth-talk someone at a local computer hardware store to
> let me open one up and plug it into my iBook (so I can determine more
> precisely how it works) before I buy it.  And if I succeed, I'll report
> my findings back to the group.
>
> > They were selling a year or so ago for about $50. I could never justify
> > the money for that.
>
> The last time I saw them (which I think was less than a year ago), they
> were well over $50.  Do you remember where you saw them for $50?
>
> ---
> Lincoln Peters
> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>
> LILO, you've got me on my knees!
> 	-- David Black, dblack at pilot.njin.net, with apologies to Derek and
>            the Dominos, and Werner Almsberger
>
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