... to trans- Parallel Port Complete 9Chapter 1 Figure 1- 2 : The photo on the left shows the back panel of an expansion card, witha parallel port& apos;s 25-pin female D-sub connector on the left ... connectorare the subminiature D, DB25, D-shell, or just D connector. The IEEE 12 84 stan-dard for the parallel port calls it the IEEE 12 84-A connector.Newer parallel ports may use the new, compact, 36-contact ... exceptions, a 25-pin serial D-sub on a PC ismale, with the female connector on the cable -the reverse of the parallel- port convention. (Other serial ports use 9-pin D-subs instead.)SCSI is another interface...