The parallel port interface was originally known as the
Parallel Printer Adapter on IBM PC-compatiblecomputers. It was primarily designed to operate a line printer that used IBM's 8-bit extended ASCIIcharacter set to print text, but could also be used to adapt other peripherals. Graphical printers, along with a host of other devices, have been designed to communicate with the system.
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