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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.
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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.
I once spent weeks trying to get a scanner, a printer and a zip drive to work on a single parallel port. Needless to say, it was a fool’s errand. I ended up buying an ISA card with two extra parallel ports which after fiddling endlessly with interrupts kind of worked. Ah, the good old days. Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
This just reminded me that parallel port switches were a thing. You could change the dial or push a button to switch peripherals on port A or B.