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Everyone thinks USB killed this 66-year-old PC port (but it secretly runs the modern world)

This 66-year-old precursor to USB refuses to become obsolete ...
Electronic Design

Parallel Port Transceivers Replace Two Devices

Supporting both IEEE1284-I and -II bi-directional parallel communications between personal computers and peripherals, the 74LVC161284TTR and 74LVCZ161284ATTR parallel-port transceivers can each ...
Hackaday

parallel port

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 ...
Electronic Design

PCI Interface, Serial Channels And Parallel Port Found On Chip

For PCI bus interfacing, the OX16PC1952 brings together a PCI interface, two high performance serial channels, and a parallel port in one compact, 128-pin TQFP package. This integrated bridge device ...
The Daily Telegraph

Bootcamp 69: installing a second parallel port

All PCs have a parallel port, and very useful it is too. On the vast majority of computers this 25-pin socket is used by the printer, however in recent years a growing number of other devices have ...
EDN

Learning About Peripherals – Part 3: Serial Communication

This article is the 3rd part of the series MCU Programming Basics, which is communication with external peripherals using serial communication. It differentiates the difference between parallel and ...