Must be a Dell 'innovation'.
I just checked and an HP Athlon 64 x2 based system still has a
parallel port in addition to 2 x PS/2 (on back). Oh, and a mess o'
USB ports.
FWIW/ScottGee1
On 4/21/06, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If the people who make cars were as incompetent as the ones who build
> computers, the roads would be clogged with horse shit, because we'd all have
> a couple in the back yard -- horses, not computers. New, gee-whiz super
> computer, and no f***ing parallel port! Looks like I'm behind the times.
> Again. Am I the only one with still working, perfectly good old printers?
> And only two USB ports in the back? That's enough for mouse and keyboard,
> but what about Epson and Minolta scanners and a pair of Epson printers,
> particularly the 2200, all of which need these things? I can plug the E-1 or
> E-330, et al, into the front when I need to update the firmware every once in
> a blue moon, but I don't want to have to play musical ports with all the
> other stuff that's used regularly.
>
> Fortunately, since I told them to hold the TV card -- who the hell watches TV
> on a computer anyway? -- there's a couple of open expansion slots. I'll go
> out very speedily one day next week in my intelligently-designed, now 510HP
> SSR and see what I can find at CompUSA or some similar geeky place. :-)
>
> Jeez!
>
> Olde Pharte Walther
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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