It was also provided with a parallel printer port and a serial communications port.

My fingers shaking, I recycled yesterday's writings and activated the printer port.

These ports were associated with the slots, so for example using a card in slot 1 would mean the printer port was disabled.

In late summer, a new model with Web access and a printer port will be available for about $200 more.

It is also known as a printer port or Centronics port.

This allowed the system to support four RS232 ports and two parallel printer ports.

Printers connected to parallel printer ports, and most computers only came with one.

The unit plugs into the parallel printer port of a PC and takes its supply from the computer.

When you do want to use the floppy drive it connects to the printer port via a cable which is about 10 inches long.

After a few thousand computers had their printer port blown up, word would get around and the virus would be identified.