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.

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.

This Design Idea shows how you can use Linear Technology's LTC6903 programmable oscillator as a clock source for direct-digital synthesis, data conversion, switched-capacitor filtering, clock, and ...

Text LCD’s are handy for any occasion, a printer port on your PC is also darn handy as well. Mix together and add in a splash of linux and you get a very handy Linux device driver for a 16×2 LCD ...

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 ...

While doing my usual surfing routine today, I came across an interesting read over at CNET. Some creative artists have made their mark in the oddest of places, a microchip. Some of the designs are ...

PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is simply a protocol to link two computers point to point through a PC parallel port, through which it exchanges IP datagrams. It is not a standard protocol; you ...

The early 2000s laptop port explosion was never sustainable ...

A used print server might be right up your alley, if you're using an old workhorse like a HP LaserJet.<BR><BR>If you're lucky, there might be a parallel port header on the motherboard of your new PC.

This circuit uses the parallel port on the PC to interface to a MAX147 12bit, 8 channel A/D converter. By using the National LM4040AIM-4.1 reference, an accuracy of 0.1% is obtained. Each of the input ...