Play around with their computer's port ?

[TenNen]

Can you tell me what applications people can make to play around with their computer's port ? or is it just a dead one waiting for some connections to the objects outside ?
Thank you very much.

 

[TenNen]

Anyone can give any ideas?

 

[russ_watters]

You're not making any sense. What port? There are parallel, serial, USB, ethernet, virtual, etc.

 

[Njorl]

Perhaps his computer came with a bottle of Portugese fortified wine, also known as port. I would suggest drinking it or, if the situation arises, hitting a burgler with it.

Njorl

 

[TenNen]

You're not making any sense. What port? There are parallel, serial, USB, ethernet, virtual, etc.

Would you please tell me about parralel one's aplication ? Anything funnie for me to play around with it ? Please tell me...

Thanks Russ a lot in advance

 

[chroot]

The parallel port is just an eight bit wide bi-directional TTL level digital bus. You can read or write any digital data with it.

- Warren

 

[TenNen]

But Can you give me some more details about how to write and read data and how to connect cables etc from/to the port to/from which device? Any applications you have done or have heard of ?

Thanks

 

[chroot]

Seems like twenty seconds with google will give you all the info you could want. Try this one:

http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm

- Warren

 

[HBar]

The parallel port is just an eight bit wide bi-directional TTL level digital bus.

Duh.

Seriously though, we're all here to ask and answer questions, but when there are hundreds upon hundreds of websites with this information that you can access with a simple google search and you still ask us we get a little cranky.

 

[Moe]

In a nutshell:

Its the rather large port on the back of your PC. Nowadays it is mostly used to connect a printer to your computer. It is possible to network two PCs via parallel ports, but that is not very fast. In general, USB and PS/2 have mostly replaced parallel ports in day-to-day usage.

 

[TenNen]

In a nutshell:

Its the rather large port on the back of your PC. Nowadays it is mostly used to connect a printer to your computer. It is possible to network two PCs via parallel ports, but that is not very fast. In general, USB and PS/2 have mostly replaced parallel ports in day-to-day usage.

Thanks,...