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it's a real hacker's port, dammit! Too young to remember the PC parallel port? That was the hacker port.
by joezydeco 7y ago
it's a real hacker's port, dammit!
Too young to remember the PC parallel port? That was the hacker port.
- yalok 7y agoTotally. I remember building a LPT to IDE adapter to connect an IDE drive to my PDP-11 clone computer around 1994, and my friend wrote a driver for it... it worked!
- owenversteeg 7y agoHah, how could anyone forget them? lp0 on fire and daisy chained dongles (back when dongles were dongles), those were the days :) That said, I think the parallel port died out not too long ago. I remember the serial port went first (2003?), then a few years later (2005?) the parallel port went, which caused a number of people to think their parallel ports were serial ports. I know nearly anything with XP had both, and most things with Vista had neither, though; they both did die pretty fast.