After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

With the continuing manufacture of new computers, there is a clear and obvious trend of the parallel port becoming less and less common. For our younger readers; the parallel port is an interface ...

Currently, one IRQ needs to be executed for each byte and the bits are read manually. A while (true) reading from the pins and doing the handshaking might be better suited. A FIFO-buffer should be ...