so what's plugged into your parallel and/or serial port?

[Shogun]

I have the cradle for my Palm III plugged into one serial port and the IR interface for my heart rate monitor connected to the other one. Nothing in the parallel port.

 

[cleverhandle]

Serial Port 1 - 16x2 Crystalfontz LCD
Serial Port 2 - occasionally, to connect as a serial console to a headless machine with serious network problems
Parallel - nothing. Damn, almost 3 for 3! But my printer is hooked up to my print server via parallel, if that counts.

Bottom line, I like my legacy ports.

 

[biostud]

My Minolta 1100L Laserprinter.

 

[buleyb]

Nothing in my parallel, but I use a serial console on my linux and unix boxes, and serial CIR port on my MythTV box.

 

[corkyg]

Serial port is disabled. Laser printer is in parallel port. It is more reliable than USB - mainly because USB doesn't like it when peripherals "sleep." It tends to then lose the connection.

I have both USB 2 devices, and Firewire. My CD/RW is connected to Firewire as is my Epson Photo Scanner. I have external drives and digitizing pad on USB. I can also access some old SCSI I devices through a Firewire adapter. My digital media readere/writers are on USB 2.

 

[Swanny]

Nada.

 

[BFG10K]

Nothing.

Hmmm... speaking of which, I must remember to disable them in the BIOS the next time I start my machine up.

 

[Mark R]

Parallel - Microcontroller programmer

Serial - GPS unit data cable

 

[holdencommodore]

In the parallel there's my Canon CanoScan FB310 and Epson Stylus C40SX connected in daisy chain. Serial port has a Casio Cassiopeia A-11A Win CE 2.0 HPC connected, sometimes a Casio CFX-9850GB+ graphics caluclator connected, other port disabled.

Cheers

 

[kenshorin]

Nada on serial / parallel ports. I am still using ps/2 keyboard and mouse. Trying real hard to get to be legacy free, not there yet...

 

[EeyoreX]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru

Originally posted by: EeyoreX
Nothing. One PC has them disabled. The other has no legacy ports (parallel, seriel, PS/2) to worry about.

\Dan

Hmm...even the abit boards have ps2 ports. So....what board is that? Please tell me it's not a mac or a compaq ez2200. I'll have to (edited out) you then.

I use an Abit AT7, that someone already mentioned. Abit's site has no good pics of the I/O panel, so I encourage you to look here. i didn't read the site, just looked to ensure there was a pic of the I/O panel, that shows there are, indeed, zero legacy ports. It will be a frigid day in Hell before I touched a Mac. Slightly warmer before I buy a Compaq (or any other mass-market OEM) machine, I prefer to build my own.

\Dan