This means manufacturers are still figuring out the port, and how to wire it up ... This is a new low in the world of computer cables, but at least the cable has disappeared from Amazon.

However, parallel port devices can be hooked up to new computers with a USB-to-parallel adapter cable. The Centronics Data Computer Corporation, a subsidiary of Wang Laboratories in the 1970s ...

It is used today primarily to connect one computer to another for data transfer ... have been reversed if connected with a regular cable. Ports in modern hubs and switches perform the crossover ...