There was a parallel port included on the Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)
available with the first version of the PC.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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From: "Michael Pont" <Michael.Pont@TESCO.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:57 AM
Subject: [OT] History of the PC parallel port


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do a little bit of background reading for an article I'm
> putting together.
>
> Specifically, I'd like to find out which version of the IBM PC family
first
> included a parallel port.  As far as I can tell, this was the IBM 5170
> PC/AT, released in 1984.
>
> Anyone know if this is correct (or suggest a reliable source of such
> information)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael.
>
> +==================================+
>
>  Michael J. Pont, PhD
>  Embedded Systems Laboratory
>  University of Leicester
>
>  http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/embedded
>
> +==================================+
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