What Can you Use a 25-pin Parallel Port for?

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I know you can use an older printer with a 25-pin parallel port. What other devices can utilize this port?

 

[tlarkin]

zip drives, but USB is sooooo much faster and better that parallel is obsolete.

 

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Why are new motherboards still coming with these obsolete ports then?

 

[porterjw]

To utilize Legacy devices. Some folks/companies still use parallel printers.

 

[brian]

you can also use it for a lcd display... i hooked one up before and it works well...

 

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you can also use it for a lcd display... i hooked one up before and it works well...

What adapters do you have to buy to connect a liquid crystal display monitor to a 25-pin parallel port?

 

[massahwahl]

why would you want to?

 

[brian]

no not a lcd moniter just a small lcd display (1 inch by 2 inch) and you can have a program tell you the temp, and processor useage mem useage etc...

 

[massahwahl]

maybe im wrong brian but at one time couldnt CRT monitors be plugged into these ports too? I thought at an office I used to work at they had them hooked up this way. It was a long time ago and they had even older computers for that time...

 

[brian]

wel im not sure... my old old computer uses a serial looking port for moniter... had to make an adapter for it...

anyway this is what im talking about

 

[porterjw]

^ Wow... That's...crafty?

 

[brian]

yeah lots of work but it is cool when you finish it