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The Tech Report
February 15, 2018
Gigabyte notes with some enthusiasm that the J4005N-D2P can decode and output 4K video at 60Hz. There's also some legacy connectivity: a VGA connector, a parallel port, and a serial port. That's no surprise on this class of hardware, particularly given its fanless nature. Because of that, it seemsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 15, 2018
If your scanner has a parallel port connection, that may be a problem. There are plenty of parallel-to-USB converters, but most are designed for printers not scanners. A new driver might be a solution (possibly VueScan). Alternatively, you could add a parallel port on an expansion card, or buy a USB 3ÃÂ ...
PCMag India
February 2, 2018
... the Zebra GK420d supports USB, and it comes with last century's serial and parallel ports for connecting to older hardware. In addition, you can buy one with a factory upgrade that enables Ethernet for an additional $149. Ethernet does, of course, allow for multiple network connections to the label printer,ÃÂ ...
The Tech Report
January 26, 2018
We wrote about Gigabyte's Gemini Lake motherboards a couple of days ago, and now fellow mainboard maker ASRock is showing off a couple of Mini-ITX boards based on Intel's latest efficiency-first SoCs. The J4105-ITX and J4105B-ITX are similar in terms of overall capabilities, though differences inÃÂ ...
The Data Center Journal
July 28, 2017
Port-breakout deployments have become a popular networking tool and are driving the large industry demand for parallel optics transceivers. Today, port breakout is commonly used to operate 40/100Gbps (40/100G) parallel optics transceivers as four 10/25Gbps (10/25G) links. Breaking out parallel portsÃÂ ...
BetaNews
July 26, 2017
USB is one of the greatest inventions in computing. If you are a younger computer user, you may not remember a time before USB devices. It was rather terrible. Sure, there were external devices, but they connected to the very slow serial or parallel ports. I had a parallel port Zip drive, for instance. Ugh. MostÃÂ ...
Laptop Mag
September 26, 2016
Apple recently kicked over a hornet's nest filled with dongles when it unveiled a pair of iPhones that do away with the 3.5-mm audio jack. Unfortunately, in their zeal to save money and make their systems ever thinner, notebook vendors have also removed a lot of important connectors. Other technologiesÃÂ ...
The Express Tribune
May 17, 2015
Just as India wants to build up Chabhar to open up new trade routes, China wants to build up Gwadar to open up trade routes and economic exchanges through Pakistan and northward back to China. PHOTO: AFP. Situated on the same coastline but separated by less than 200 kilometres, Gwadar andÃÂ ...
Computerworld
December 31, 1999
There are four large PC cases, stacked two high and sitting on a large table in the corner with a heavy-duty UPS beneath it. Each PC is tied to a KVM switch, with cables leading to his desk and a large monitor. The PCs are also connected to a parallel port switch box that feeds a dot-matrix printer -- the oneÃÂ ...
MilTech
December 7, 2017
... the cable, connector, and communication protocols stated for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and other electronic devices. USB effectively replaced a variety of earlier interfaces such as serial and parallel ports as well as separate power chargers for portable devices.
AnandTech
December 7, 2017
It's an ugly standard and while the rest of the industry has progressed (look at the progress of CPUs from 1990 to 2017....now look at ATX cases from 1990 to 2017)... this 30+ year-old standard is holding us back. We got rid of the headphone jack, floppy drives, IDE, serial and parallel ports, and now we're ...
Citizen
December 5, 2017
It found that Fireblade had applied to run a parallel port of entry, which was impermissible in terms of the Immigration Act, as it would not be available to the public as a whole. Fireblade described the appeal bid as inexplicable and legally unsustainable, especially where home affairs was currently already ...
Game Revolution
November 26, 2017
You had to content with SCSI cards and cords, Parallel Ports, Serial Ports, PS/2 Ports, and sometimes even internal cards with proprietary ports. If you upgraded your PC, you risked losing the ability to use your old accessories too, because the tech was moving so fast that a common connector one day ...
Food Engineering Magazine
November 17, 2017
... hazardous substances) with electronic components may often require a redesign of a controller. Modern systems use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, and these technologies (e.g., SCSI, PCI, parallel ports) often disappear in 10 years—not to mention hardware architectures moving from 32Â ...
SlashGear
November 15, 2017
Then wait for more USB-C and Bluetooth headphones to go to market, let people make the switch on their own time, and remove the port when people have largely abandoned it. That's what happened when USB first arrived. Parallel ports didn't disappear until well after it was easy to find a USB printer.
Hackaday
October 28, 2017
With a little bit of clever firmware developed by Parallax, you could write code in BASIC, upload your code over a serial or parallel port (which ...
Hot Hardware
October 17, 2017
... PS/2 connectors for Amiga or PC compatible input devices, dual DB9 Amiga mouse/joystick ports, DB25 serial and parallel ports, a standard ...
Electronic Design
October 16, 2017
Modules are available that interface through either a parallel port (requires 6 to 10 output lines) or through a serial interface (typically UART).
9to5Mac
October 16, 2017
I don't morn the loss of my parallel port or the PS2 ports, or my old school serial adapters ether. I don't morn the loss of the Dock connector or ...
The Data Center Journal
July 28, 2017
Breaking out parallel ports is beneficial for multiple applications, such as building large scale spine-and-leaf networks and enabling today's ...
BetaNews
July 26, 2017
Sure, there were external devices, but they connected to the very slow serial or parallel ports. I had a parallel port Zip drive, for instance.
AnandTech
July 18, 2017
This consists of two PS/2 ports, one parallel port, one serial port, a VGA port, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB2 ports, a Realtek Gbe LAN RJ-45 port, ...
IT PRO
May 16, 2017
When dongles first came along, they used the old parallel port ... However, nowadays, most computers no longer sport a parallel port, having ...
Hackaday
May 5, 2017
There's a problem with it, though: normally, the Sherline CNC controller runs off the parallel port. While some of us still have a Windows 98Â ...
Laptop Mag
September 26, 2016
Apple recently kicked over a hornet's nest filled with dongles when it unveiled a pair of iPhones that do away with the 3.5-mm audio jack.
eTeknix
December 31, 1999
You have to be really cost conscious when you start out. In hindsight, you can say it could have been better, but compared to where we were with serial ports and parallel ports, where each of the ports was logical, had cables, and multiple wires, and were not plug-and-playable, USB was significantly better.”.
PCGamesN
December 31, 1999
It's taken up until the USB 3.1 standard in 2014 to create a flippable USB connector - that's 18 years since the first USB standard was finalised. The developer behind USB, Ajay Bhatt, has talked about why the first iteration was never flippable to begin with, and hopefully can justify years and years of I.TÂ ...
CNET
December 31, 1999
"In hindsight you can say it could have been better, but compared to where we were with serial ports and parallel ports, where each of the ports were logical, had cables, and multiple wires, and were not plug-and-playable, USB was significantly better." Bhatt shared his thoughts on what might have been.
AnandTech
August 21, 2017
Oh man, do I remember those times, my first burner was an external HP unit that connected via the Parallel Port. You wouldn't dare touch theÃÂ ...
Fibre Systems
August 11, 2017
Breaking out parallel ports is beneficial for multiple applications, such as building large scale spine-and-leaf networks and enabling today'sÃÂ ...
Libya Herald
August 3, 2017
As a result of it and its rejection by the board in Misrata, there are now two parallel port companies. The Benghazi one, recognised by theÃÂ ...
BetaNews
July 26, 2017
Sure, there were external devices, but they connected to the very slow serial or parallel ports. I had a parallel port Zip drive, for instance.
AnandTech
July 18, 2017
This consists of two PS/2 ports, one parallel port, one serial port, a VGA port, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB2 ports, a Realtek Gbe LAN RJ-45 port,ÃÂ ...
Gizbot
June 30, 2017
Mainly, the ports are divided into serial and parallel ports otherwise called as the male and female port. Today, we are going to be looking atÃÂ ...
Hackaday
June 8, 2017
... you'll find serial & parallel ports are ripe for experimentation, but the ... Unlike the parallel port, the expansion port doesn't have a stableÃÂ ...
IT PRO
May 16, 2017
When dongles first came along, they used the old parallel port ... However, nowadays, most computers no longer sport a parallel port, havingÃÂ ...
Hackaday
May 5, 2017
There's a problem with it, though: normally, the Sherline CNC controller runs off the parallel port. While some of us still have a Windows 98ÃÂ ...
Laptop Mag
September 26, 2016
Apple recently kicked over a hornet's nest filled with dongles when it unveiled a pair of iPhones that do away with the 3.5-mm audio jack.
Hackaday
March 7, 2017
Abandoning steppers would mean massively more efficient motors, especially considering that a 3D printer doesn't need anywhere near as much torque as it's older CNC cousins (old enough that many used a parallel port to bit-bang the step and directionÃÂ ...
ExtremeTech
February 28, 2017
as of two years ago, my old boss was still running windows 98 on two of his work computers to run an imaging microscope and a liquid chromatography machine because they were the only things with parallel ports. God awful having to use those things ...
PC Authority
February 22, 2017
First, Apple came for your serial port, then your parallel port, and in 2016 it took your phone's headphone socket, too.
Hackaday
February 22, 2017
The MicroVox has a 25-pin RS-232 serial port as well as a parallel port and a speaker jack. In addition to the SC-01A, it has a 6502 under the hood.
SDTimes.com
February 17, 2017
Right now, ReactOS is able to send print commands to a parallel port printer, but the ReactOS team wrote that "this is the first step toward universal support.
OS News
February 16, 2017
Today marks the fifth release of the ReactOS 0.4.x series, as well as the fifth following the 4 month release cycle started by 0.4.0 itself.
The Tech Report, LLC
February 14, 2017
On the subject of support for ancient connectors, the A68N-5100's pair of PS/2 ports and headers for serial and parallel ports suggest the true audience for this board may be in emergent markets or in embedded applications. The ATX PSU connector is aÃÂ ...
Alphr
February 8, 2017
First, Apple came for your serial port, then your parallel port, and in 2016 it took your phone's headphone socket. Now, the new MacBook Pro family has come for pretty much everything else - the fucntion keys, HDMI and display ports, memory card reader ...
AnandTech
February 8, 2017
At a high-level, the problem is that the operating clock for the Low Pin Count bus can stop working. Essentially a type of legacy bus, the LPC bus is a simple bus for simple peripherals, best known for supporting legacy devices such as serial and ...
Digital Journal
January 20, 2017
USB effectively replaced a variety of earlier interfaces such as serial and parallel ports as well as separate power chargers for portable devices.
Hackaday
December 21, 2016
One way to get around limitations in computing resources is to throw more computers at the problem. That's why even cheap consumer-grade computers and phones have multiple cores in them.
TechTarget
December 16, 2016
... to administer. While Sophos targets small to midsize companies, its own set of products can scale to 50,000 active accounts. Sophos is a solid product for companies that have an enhanced parallel port and want to consolidate for a single EMM system.
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