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Old Engraving Machine Connector

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I need help with a weird hardware issue. A friends boss just bought this old engraving machine, but it has a weird 37 pin connector that I can't seem to find online. He currently has to use very old PC that has 32mb of memory, and we're hoping to get either an adapter or an expansion card to throw in to something more modern. And help would be greatly appreciated. 

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Ah, the ancient parallel port. I don't believe I've seen an adapter for modern PCs but I bet there's some kind of PCI to Parallel expansion card you can find.

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That's wider than a parallel port, with a DB connector it should be 25pin and the older 36pin (not 37) version uses a Centronics connector...

 

What does it connect to on the PC side? I'd imagine it has a proprietary expansion card to drive the machine...

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Same kind of connector on the PC's side of it. Seems to be part of the actual motherboard as well, so I'm assuming that they manufactured it specifically for this. It is a 37 pin though. It's the first time I've seen a 37 pin instead of either 25 or 36 as well.

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Then you're probably SOL at least unless a lot more effort is put in (opening the PC, seeing what this connector connects to, figuring out if it's custom or something more standard like an actual parallel port but just with a custom connector you could make an adapter for)...

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