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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: serial vs. parallel, was:(Re: Amiga as workstation)
Message-ID: <628@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 22:11:14 GMT
References: <3896@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1959@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: den of sinister exaggerators -- houston.montrose
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Keywords: Now now, can't you look at the big picture?
Summary: Pardon me, my ignorance and youth is showing...

In article <1959@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:

> No, I mean like everything but printers, just about, is serial.


Um...  I'm not that old, and I've only been computing since about '77
or so, and it's all been on micros (up untill last year), so I was
just wondering..

What peripherals besides printers have *ever* used parallel? 

I've used Commodore equip forever, so it seems, and Motorola S8000's,
and a few other machines that had no parallel port whatsoever..  There
was never anything I wanted to use, or heard of, or even just played
with that needed parallel.  Except some goofy AT&T printers... :-)

(I'm now a near-ecstatic UNIX-PC owner, so don't bug *me*.  I wanted an
Amiga, not a 3b1. :-)
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