1980 called, they want their technology back.

I'll go take a look through my drawer of shit. I keep things like that because I re-use the ribbon cable.

no dice, all I have are male plugs :(

yeah, I kind of wish I had an older PC with parallel and serial ports on it sometimes.

All I have here are a bunch of male serial port things though, pretty sure the last two old computers I had, had the lpt port built into the motherboard's connection cluster thing.

You could do what I did though, go buy an ethernet -> parallel printer adapter (I assume it's for a printer). Not quite as cheap but if no one has one of those cables it might be the only way :(

Does the printer have USB? Because you could upgrade to a modern version of WordPerfect. There's a classic 5.1 mode and a WP5.1 keyboard layout. It might help with the Word migration too, as you can also switch to a MSOffice mode.

I had a look rusta and I couldn't see anything. Although I do have an ISA Sound Blaster and a PCI IDE RAID card if you need :S

http://dx.com/s/parallel%2bport.html?page=1

or EBay