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.

With the continuing manufacture of new computers, there is a clear and obvious trend of the parallel port becoming less and less common. For our younger readers; the parallel port is an interface ...

Parallel port access changed significantly between Win95 and WinNT - in '95 it was possible for user programs to directly twiddle parallel port bits but NT made that impossible (only a driver can ...