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 ...

If your small business is typical, you want to get the longest lifespan possible from your tech investment, and therefore you may have an older dot-matrix or laser printer with a parallel port that ...

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 ...

If you want to talk to a typewriter using something other than your fingers on the keys, you could do a lot worse than to pick up a specimen featuring a Centronics parallel port. That’s what happened ...

The project illustrates how an inexpensive logic analyzer is made to connect with a PC using the parallel port. The project illustrates how an inexpensive logic analyzer is made to connect with a PC ...

I have a PC-based DSO that connects via parallel port that I'd like to get working via USB (preferable) or at least ExpressCard. I picked up a USB-parallel adapter from MicroCenter thinking it would ...

Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86 architecture maintains a stronghold in the computing space that won’t be going away ...

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 recently acquired an external (100MB) Zip drive and disks for a small amount of money (long story short: I can now inexpensively transport large files between home and the university).<BR>There are ...

Many designers require that their PCs act as complete control systems without any internal hardware. For this function, users need at least one channel of analog data acquisition to monitor the ...

The mode chosen by the software driver is based on the connected device. 1-Compatibility mode supports the Centronics interface at 150 KB/sec. 2-Nibble mode supports Bi-tronics; HP's parallel port ...