I have it
connected to my PC with a standard printer cable.
Well, that won't work for me
since I don't use pee seas. (This is
ClassisCmp, remember, people use Classic computers here.)
But peecee-style parallel ports are not x86-specific; I've got plenty
of SPARCstations with basically-PC-compatible parallel ports.
You may dislike them; you may even dislike them because PCs popularized
them. But it's not fair to imply that they are a PC-only thing.
Besides, lots of peecees are on-topic by now. (I even, once, saw a
_really_ nicely built PC-class machine. I think it was one of the
first so-called portables, what today would be called a luggable. It
was about XT-class, 8086 I think; nothing particularly interesting from
a software perspective. But it was a _beautiful_ piece of engineering.
Despite its age, everything worked perfectly as far as I could tell,
and it looked like the sort of thing that could jounce out the back of
a moving van and suffer nothing worse than a scratched case. Obviously
built before the cheap clone knockoffs pushed quality down through the
floor.)
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