 A DB-25 parallel printer port, as on IBM-PC style, and a few other types of computers.
 Micro ribbon 36 pin female, such as on printers and on some (particularly industrial and early- and pre-1980s personal) computers. A parallel port is a type of interface found on computers (personal and otherwise) for connecting various peripherals. It is also known as a printer port or Centronics port . The IEEE 1284 standard defines the bi-directional version of the port. In computing, a parallel port is an interface from a computer system where data is transferred in or out in parallel, that is, on more than one wire. ...
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DB-25 is a RS-232 D-shell connector, with a total of 25 pins across two rows. ...
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The tower of a personal computer. ...
A personal computer (PC) is a computer whose price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. ...
For other uses, see Centronics (disambiguation). ...
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Current popularity
For the most part, the USB interface has replaced the Centronics-style parallel port. Also, some printers use an ethernet connection instead. As a result, many personal computer manufacturers (beginning in the early 2000s) have begun omitting the parallel port to save cost. It is now considered to be a legacy port. For laptops, access to a parallel port is still commonly available via a docking station; and adapters are available for USB, etc. USB redirects here. ...
Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ...
A legacy port is a port or connector on a PC that is considered fully or partially obsolete. ...
Docking station. ...
Uses - Some printers
- Zip drive
- Some scanners
- Some sound cards
- Some Webcams
- Some gamepads and joysticks
- Peripheral devices such as EPROM programmers
- SCSI devices via a Parallel to SCSI adapter
- Experimental setups using the 12 TTL drivers.
- External CD-Rom/RW drives
Iomega ZIP-100 Drive Logo An internal Zip drive. ...
In computing, a scanner is a device that analyzes images, printed text, or handwriting, or an object (such as an ornament) and converts it to a digital image. ...
A typical webcam A web camera (or webcam) is a real-time camera (usually, though not always, a video camera) whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video calling application. ...
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A Motorola 68000-based computer with various TTL chips mounted on protoboards. ...
Implementation on IBMoid personal computers
Port addresses Traditionally IBM PC systems have allocated their first three parallel ports according to the configuration in the table below. If there is an unused LPTx slot, the port addresses of the others are moved up. (For example, if a port at 0x3bc does not exist, the port at 0x378 will then become LPT1.) The IRQ lines, however, remain fixed (therefore, 0x378 at LPT1 would use IRQ 7). The port addresses assigned to each LPTx slot can be determined by reading the BIOS Data Area (BDA) at 0000:0408. In computing, an interrupt is an asynchronous signal from hardware or software indicating the need for attention. ...
On a computer system, an I/O address is specific portion of address space in the CPU used to read/write to specific devices within the computer. ...
On a computer system, an I/O address is specific portion of address space in the CPU used to read/write to specific devices within the computer. ...
IRQ redirects here. ...
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Bit to Pin Mapping for the Standard Parallel Port (SPP):
| Address | | MSB | | | | | | | LSB | | Bit: | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Base | Pin: | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | Base+1 | Pin: | ~11 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 15 | | | | Base+2 | Pin: | | | | | ~17 | 16 | ~14 | ~1 | ~ indicates a hardware inversion of the bit. The binary representation of decimal 149, with the MSB highlighted. ...
The binary representation of decimal 149, with the lsb highlighted. ...
Program interface In versions of Microsoft Windows that did not use the Windows NT kernel (as well as MS-DOS and some other operating systems), programs could access the parallel port with simple outportb() and inportb() subroutine commands. In operating systems such as Windows NT and Unix (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, 386BSD, etc), the microprocessor is operated in a different security ring, and accesses to the parallel port is inhibited, unless using the required driver. This improves security and arbitration of device contention. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...
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Windows NT (New Technology) is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. ...
Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...
Windows NT (New Technology) is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. ...
Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-like BSD computer operating system. ...
FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ...
Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ...
386BSD, also known as JOLIX, is a free BSD operating system for the Intel 80386. ...
Pinouts Pinouts for a DB25 connector are: Pinout is a term used in electronics to describe how an electrical connector is wired. ...
| Pin No (DB25) | Signal name | Direction | Register - bit | Inverted | | 1 | nStrobe | Out | Control-0 | Yes | | 2 | Data0 | In/Out | Data-0 | No | | 3 | Data1 | In/Out | Data-1 | No | | 4 | Data2 | In/Out | Data-2 | No | | 5 | Data3 | In/Out | Data-3 | No | | 6 | Data4 | In/Out | Data-4 | No | | 7 | Data5 | In/Out | Data-5 | No | | 8 | Data6 | In/Out | Data-6 | No | | 9 | Data7 | In/Out | Data-7 | No | | 10 | nAck | In | Status-6 | No | | 11 | Busy | In | Status-7 | Yes | | 12 | Paper-Out | In | Status-5 | No | | 13 | Select | In | Status-4 | No | | 14 | Linefeed | Out | Control-1 | Yes | | 15 | nError | In | Status-3 | No | | 16 | nInitialize | Out | Control-2 | No | | 17 | nSelect-Printer | Out | Control-3 | Yes | | 18-25 | Ground | - | - | - |
Monodirectional parallel ports In early parallel ports the data lines were monodirectional (data out only) so it was not easily possible to feed data in to the computer. However, a workaround was possible by using 4 of the 5 status lines. A circuit could be constructed to split each 8-bit byte into two 4-bit nibbles which were fed in sequentially through the status lines. Each pair of nibbles was then re-combined into an 8-bit byte. For other uses, see Nibble (disambiguation). ...
See also In computing, a parallel port is an interface from a computer system where data is transferred in or out in parallel, that is, on more than one wire. ...
In telecommunication, parallel transmission is: The simultaneous transmission of the signal elements of a character or other data item. ...
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