#what is this and why?

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humble reef
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This thing is older than me, might be from ring token network over serial?

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slate frigate
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It's a Parallel port, you can think of it as USB before USB existed

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port

Parallel port

In computing, a parallel port is a type of interface found on early computers (personal and otherwise) for connecting peripherals. The name refers to the way the data is sent; parallel ports send multiple bits of data at once (parallel communication), as opposed to serial communication, in which bits are sent one at a time. To do this, parallel ...

humble reef