0 a part of a computer where wires from other pieces of equipment such as a printer can be connected to it, sending information eight bits (= units of information) at a time -- port równoległy
Early scanners had parallel port connections that could not transfer data faster than 70 kilobytes/second.
The parallel port was never used as a general purpose parallel printer port.
A floppy disk was attached through a proprietary parallel port connector.
For electronics hobbyists the parallel port is still often the easiest way to connect to an external circuit board.
A dock was available to connect this drive to a desktop computer's parallel port.
They have declined in usefulness because newer computers do not have parallel port hardware.
One is a multi-radio version that supports up to 5 radios to be controlled by a single parallel port, and also supports serial operation.
This used the status pins of the original port to form a 4-bit parallel port for sending arbitrary data back to the host.