I've had the same scanner for many years now, a cheap parrallel port one.<P>No matter what machine I've ever used it on, it has always frozen that machine COMPLETELY, but only for the duration of the ...

I just sent off an email to Acer tech support but thought someone here might be able to help. As follows:<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip_ubbcode_quote"><font size="-1 ...

First introduced in 1970, parallel ports were originally designed to connect business computers to printers. With their inclusion on the IBM PC in the early 1980s, they became an industry standard.