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Jan 18, 2009
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This is curious. I’ve had a PCI port-80 card for quite a while, and it’s come in handy from time to time for debugging. What intrigues me about this one though is the addition of the USB & parallel port. Not seen that before. Suppose it saves you needing to have the case open to see the numeric readout.

Too bad it isn’t PCI express. The last few boxes I’ve had no longer have 32-bit PCI.

That site has all manner of bizarre junk for sale. It also seems to be the cheapest source I’ve found for things like SATA cables.

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  1. sprack  •  Jan 18, 2009 @14:24

    Holy crap Dave, that’s the coolest find. Thank you.

  2. sid3windr  •  Jan 18, 2009 @16:45

    Dave, I’ve seen many with the parallel port, labeled as (also) “for laptops”. I guess they’ve been doing the Port 80 over parallel for longer… no clue if desktop boards actually support that, and the USB connection is totally new to me too :o

    I too have enjoyed my ISA/PCI port 80 card … if the USB thing works we won’t need PCIe ones ;)

    (dx rocks, although quality is not always the greatest, but for that price..)

  3. sid3windr  •  Jan 18, 2009 @16:47

    Ehh, just read the comments, no port80 over USB :-(