Better still get a Wifi enable printer (approx €100-€200) and then you have no need for any cables. I would also get rid of the 20 year old PC. Keeping the PC for Word documents makes no sense. If you don't have Microsoft Office on your laptop you can get a Student Edition for approx €100.
+1 on the above. Another issue you may face is getting compatible printer "driver" software for a more modern version of Windows than you have installed on the old PC... Anyway, if you don't want to dump the old printer there are interface converters available for reasonable small money like this one at amazon that you could use.
A small warning though that there is a risk that it might get tricky to get those converters working with the Vista's, Windows 7+8's - make sure you double check the product description.
Please tell us that you have backed everything up on the old pc!
A Parallel to USB cable might do what you need, available from ebay (£4.19 delivered) and [broken link removed] ($4.16 delivered) amongst others.Is there a new cable that I can purchase that will have a USB port at one end and the old fashioned chunky bit at the other end? Or is there some sort of device that I can plug in to the old printer and then get a double ended cable with USB ports at both ends that can in turn plug in to it?
I don't want to spend much money on this.
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