The experience of connecting hardware devices to computers can vary across hardware and systems. USB printers, especially, haven’t typically been super convenient for connecting with a Windows ...

Computers and their peripherals specialize in Murphy's Law: the greater your need for their services, the greater the likelihood of their uncooperative behavior. A USB printer can't output your ...

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, ...

This circuit switches a printer’s USB connection from a PC to a laptop. What was needed was a method of allowing a laptop to use the printer occasionally while at all other times the printer would be ...

[Furrtek] hooked up his Game Boy printer for use with a PC (translated). The two-part hack started with a cable to attach the device via USB. A Nokia interface cable was used as a base to translate ...

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Ports and connectors are not always the first thing you think about when buying a computer, but it's good to know your options and more about the different types of computer ports and their functions.