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Old 07-29-2022, 01:44 PM
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Element14 makes a wifi dongle for a parallel port dot matrix printer.


It makes me smile when people create new tech to keep using old tech.


I did use a parallel port-to-usb dongle for awhile to keep using old printers. I only bought a new printer when Windows 10 got too advanced to support it.
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