Centronics Printer to DB9 port???

[messiahnet]

I have an ancient laptop that is used to interface with a piece of chiropractic anaysis equipment. It's a big machine that connects using one of the laptop's DB9 ports and one of the laptop's DB25 ports. There is a second DB25 port on the laptop that I have been using to connect to a printer (which connects using a DB25 to Centronics standard printer cable). So, the whole setup, as of now, requires the computer to have two DB25 ports and at least a single DB9 port. I am looking to upgrade the laptop due to the fact that the one currently in use is huge and heavy. I don't want to lug it around to jobsites with me. However, any "newer" laptop would only have a max of one DB25. I need to be able to print. My question is, Is there a way to hook this printer up to a new laptop via a DB9 port?

Thank You in advance for any help.

 

[The_Other_One]

Do you need just one DB9 or the printer ports as well? Basically no laptops come with serial ports anymore, but you can get USB to Serial converters. Now, I don't know if one of those would actually work as mine has some incompatibilities, but it might be your only option...

As for a printer(DB25) port, a select few laptops do still come with those. I think Toshiba and IBM(Levino, or something like that) have a few models out.

 

[DCIScouts]

Most of the IBM/Lenovo laptops do have the old parallel ports on them still, I don't believe that the Toshibas do. The IBMs are the only ones that I know of...