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Older Forms of Communication are Alive and Well

On August 17, 2015 in Connectors by Arden Henderson

Communication workhorses in the industry have been around since the always-underestimated, industrious Neanderthals first used serial and parallel communications to wire up their caves for monitoring fire wood inventories and controlling cave fire pits while the Ice Age raged outside.

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Tagged With: IEEE 1294, legacy communication, parallel, port, serial, USB

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