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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Good. You do need to check for frayed insulation though. What will happen is the ones will get through (they are determined little buggers) but the zeros will escape, ride the outside of the cable and fall off onto your desk. No connectivity and just makes a mess. This was a particular problem with old parallel printer cables because there were 8 data pins so it really came out fast.
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hey, that's not true at all!
the baud rate of parallel ports relied on sequentially sending individual 1's and 0's down 8 wires because the 1's and 0's of the time period weren't as cheap and didn't compress like the 1's and 0's of today.
let me tell you, a broken parallel port cable is a drippy faucet compared to a bad usb 3.0 cable....
