What's up AntiOnline?

I've given up on Nihil's One Interesting Post a Day for Twenty-Eight Days Challenge - I'm just not that interesting anymore...

However, I came across an interesting problem on another forum, and I was hoping some of the gurus here could help this gentleman out.

The man needs a parallel to USB adapter - not to be confused with a USB to parallel adapter which are easily obtainable and commonly used to hook up newer computers to older printers - those do not work both ways.

The original thread is here: http://www.computerforum.com/173158-...-port-usb.html

I suggested this http://www.universalpart.com/Paralle...item_4788.html, to which he replied:

Yea something like that could work... I am not sure. However, it has the wrong USB interface and so would not be able to be plugged into a computer.
For me alone it would be much cheaper to just buy a PCI parallel card, agreed. However, this is a bit of reasearch for my Grandfathers company who design and build the previously mentioned instruments. It would cost millions to redesign their motherboards to have a USB port and to write the code to drive them.... therefore, if a correct Parallel to USB could be found it would be a much cheaper alternative to just simply ship one out with each instrument to the customer.
If you can help him out, please post here and I'll relay the message and give you full credit, or if you're signed up on ComputerForum.com then you could post there as well...

Thanks guys!