Many laser printers last for years, so businesses often keep older laser printers around even after upgrading other hardware. Many older laser printers use a parallel port interface rather than the ...

Any peripheral component can be controlled by the 25-pin parallel port by assigning a high & low or ON & OFF state to each pin. During the design of the project, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System ...

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.

The 24-bit I/O card project has been designed to function with parallel/printer port of an Amiga or computer using the Intel 82C55 I/O chip. The design of the device contains read & write strobe, a ...

In the early days of personal computing a parallel printer cable could refer to any of a wide range of cables that connected a computer and a printer. Over time, standards were established or adopted, ...

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 MB by the ...

An earlier printer that used the parallel port for a cabled connection to a computer. Today, there are no parallel ports on computers or printers. Either the printer is cabled to the computer via USB ...

I have been working with computers since the late 70s, and that's not for boasting purposes, but to tell you where I come from. When I started, I was always told to NEVER plug/unplug the following ...

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 ...