Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

You can't daisy-chain parallel-port printers. If you've managed to get things plugged in, it's probably because you've stuck one printer cable into the serial port of the other printer. You'll need ...

What? I suppose that ADB is a serial interface, yes, but no one's really calling it a serial port. The traditional Mac serial ports were the modem and printer ports. I suppose they got rid of them ...