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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: INPUT PARALLEL DATA OVER THE PRINTER PORT?
Message-ID: <12548@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 17:55:03 GMT
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wei@hpctdls.HP.COM (Bill Ives) writes:
>     My guess is that
>   parallel input has never caught on due to it not being possible
>   on original IBM equipment (actually burning it out -- I've done
>   it so I know).  
I'm glad you decided to post this message!  I knew that parallel input
wasn't always possible, but not that it was sometimes dangerous!

Nevertheless, it *has* begun to catch on.  A number of recent products
make use of it, notably the latest version of Laplink, and a developer's
two-node version of LANtastic.