> > In the real world, serial is almost dead (the occasional 
> 56k modem), 
> > and I'm surprised that parallel has hung on for so long.  Must be a 
> > lot of old printers out there.
>
> also there seem to be a lot of dongles for specialist 
> software that rely on having a paralell port.


That could be it.  Lots of cu$tom $oftware out there, I guess.  I haven't
seen a dongle in use for years.  Hmmm, 1998 on a custom database box.  I
played with some USB ones about 5 years ago, still got them in a box here
somewhere.

Tony

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