billykid wrote: mea culpa .. I haven't used the parallel for a long time 
N.P.
I have used them plenty, example, using it to remove BIOS passwords from Toshiba laptops, but just wiring several pins. Worked every time !
Also used them a lot to transfer files in the 486/pentium era as floppy's were to damn slow, and error-ed out at the end of a copy, usually !
