After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Later this month Keyspan will introduce its newest product, a Mini Port Replicator that will retail for US$79. The Replicator will combine a USB serial adapter, USB parallel printer adapter and 2-port ...

The Centronics interface is also called Extended Capability Port (ECP) or Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP). This is an interface that simultaneously transfers bits of binary data (sets of 1 and 0) in ...

Keyspan, the folks who make a variety of Mac peripherals, has a new Mini Port Replicator that combines a USB serial adapter, USB parallel printer adapter and 2-port USB hub into one laptop accessory.

Getting data to a storage medium requires transmission. Parallel transmission has historically been the preferred way to write data to disk. But at current speeds, serial transmission can be faster ...