QVS 3ft DB25 Male to Female Fully-Wired Extension Cable for Parallel or Serial Applications

ah USB one of the wonderful conveniences of modern life you just plug it into any one of the similar looking ports and things just work well most of the time anyway but whatever happened to those old-school massive things we used to use to connect printers and hard drives well older standards like OEE 1284 and IDE cables had so many pins and took up so much physical space because they communicated in parallel meaning that they could send and/or receive multiple bits of information simultaneously by contrast new-school interfaces like USB SAS SATA and individual PCI Express Lanes are serial which fun fact is actually what the s in each acronym stands for these ones can only send or receive one bit at a time but wait a minute why on earth would that be better I mean when they closed all but one lane on the freeway that's a bad thing well popular parallel standards had a number of limitati