Some businesses may still use older printers with parallel ports, and this is particularly true of devices that have special functions such as wide sheet or continuous roll printing. An adapter cable ...

First introduced in 1970, parallel ports were originally designed to connect business computers to printers. With their inclusion on the IBM PC in the early 1980s, they became an industry standard.

(1) A hardware interface that transfers one or more bytes simultaneously. See parallel interface. (2) A socket on a computer used to connect a printer or other device via a parallel interface (eight ...

Is this possible? I have a laser printer, but it has only has usb output to the computer. However, i have a router that has a parallel print server port on it. Is there a cable or adapter that will ...

It is a great shame that back in the days when a typical home computer had easy low-level hardware access that is absent from today’s machines, the cost of taking advantage of it was so high.

???<BR><BR>I have a propriatery RS232 device that I need to connect to a computer that has no serial ports (newer laptop). The hardware has a dongle incorporated into the cable to unlock the software ...