Hi, I just got a Windows 7 laptop and as everyone knows, these new laptops obviously don't really carry a DB25 parallel printer port anymore, since it's all USB these days to keep a more compact ...

First introduced in 1970, parallel ports were originally designed to connect business computers to printers. With their inclusion on the IBM PC in the early 1980s, they became an industry standard.

In the early days of personal computing a parallel printer cable could refer to any of a wide range of cables that connected a computer and a printer. Over time, standards were established or adopted, ...