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Hi
The latest lap tops now have Win 8 as the operating system and what is more they don't even have drivers to use Win 7 let alone XP. They have neither COM or LPT ports. I know of no USB/parallel device that does anything more than provide access to a printer.
On the other hand you can still build a tower that can accept a full LPT and/or com port card and video systems that have drivers. However if you want full functionality of the LPT ports you will need to modify your operating system as the use of the parallel port addresses has been inhibited after Windows 98 2e.
Barry
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