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On 2025-09-02 06:47, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 02:30:59 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> At my first job, first month perhaps, we killed a PC. I don't remember
>> if it was me or my boss that plugged the centronics connector of a
>> printer into the PC, and I saw a tiny spark. Sure enough, the printer
>> port was dead.
> 
> I killed the Centronics port on one machine but I had plugged in a
> homegrown EPROM burner and screwed something up. You could do many things
> with the parallel port that didn't involve a printer. Some used it for
> dongles. I may have an external Iomega Zip drive around here that used it.
> 100 MB of removable storage. What more would you ever need?

Yes. Iomega zip drive, dongle for authentication of machine (anti-copy 
protection), long cable to transfer files from computer to computer...

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.