In 1994 two new types of parallel ports were introduced – the enhanced parallel port (EPP) and the extended capabilities port (ECP). The enhanced parallel port (EPP) was quite a bit faster than older parallel ports, with transfer speeds of 500 KBps to 2 MBps. The port is used for newe...
What are some common uses of parallel ports? Parallel ports were commonly used to connect printers, scanners, and external storage devices like ZIP drives. They allowed for faster data transfer compared to serial ports, which could only transfer one bit at a time. ...
All ports, no matter how you connect to them, are eitherserial portsorparallel ports,which refers to the way the data flows through the wires (of course there are different cables for serial ports than for parallel ports). A parallel port accepts the cables that have parallel wires, so dat...
These are high-speed “parallel” ports that let you connect SCSI peripherals such as printers or disk drives. If you’ve ever heard the strange term “scuzzy port,” it refers to the SCSI port. MIDI port. Computers can play, store, create and manipulate “digitized” music—music and sou...
Learn about parallel ports, one of the most common types of external port found on PCs in the 1980s and 1990s.
A serial ATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) port is used to connect storage devices, such as hard drives and solid-state drives, to a computer or other electronic device. It allows for faster data transfer rates than older parallel ATA ports. An eSATA port has a slightly di...
I am so glad that the use of parallel and serial ports have been phased out of the current computer hardware market. Gone are the days of dealing with gender adapters and making sure that you had a very specific cable for a specific application. Also gone are the days of ridiculously slow...
Some common ports are Universal Serial Bus ports,USB-Cports, Ethernet ports orDisplayPorts. Some older ports no longer in common use are serial ports, parallel ports and mouse/keyboard PS/2 ports. As a general guideline, if the plug receptacle is on a computer, it is called aport; if th...
A parallel port is a device connector that uses a group of up to 25 wires to simultaneously transmit or receive multiple bits of data. Parallel ports were extensively used in the past, mostly connecting to peripherals such as printers, scanners, and CD readers. Today, the technology has been...
Today, serial ports are mainly used for dial-up modems and current operating systems handle configuration automatically. Newer, faster technologies of USB (Universal Serial Bus) and Firewire have otherwise replaced both serial and parallel ports. USB supports speeds from 1.5 megabits per second to ...