And nobody cared, because nobody used them anymore. What’s more, they take up a lot of space in the back panel, space that was needed for all those new features added to the motherboards.Īnd then those ancient ports disappeared from the modern computers. And also having on-board sound card, and on-board video card, and on-board ethernet adapter… And those “ancient” parallel and serial ports were becoming more and more useless. And gradually the motherboards started having more and more USB ports. Even laptops had such ports (or had a “docking station” that added those ports to the laptop). And I end up building (and buying) the USBasp ( Wayback Machine) programmer.īack in the early days, basically all computers had a parallel port (also called printer port) and a serial port. However, today it is difficult to find a computer that has a parallel port, and thus I needed to revisit this topic of AVR programmers. Almost 4 years later, I started using AVR microcontrollers again.
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