On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:00:47 PM Stephen Dubovsky did opine:

> I don't think a power pin has ever been included in a std parallel port.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port
> 
According to that, no.  But I noted that it says also that pin 25 was not 
always connected to ground, and in the case I am recalling from 20 some 
years ago, the parport in question did have 5 volts on pin 25.  
Serendipity?  As I recall, it was on the MFC-3 card in my amiga 2000 at the 
time.  I had assumed, and of course wikipedia didn't exist in 1991, that it 
was SOP.

I sit corrected.  :)

> Stephen
> 
> Huh? Maybe my memory is going south, but in a past life I once used the
> 5
> 
> > volts supplied by the parport to fix that in one of the shacks old
> > printers.  No power was obtained from the printer to do that. ISTR
> > there is a pin on the db25 that has 5 volts on it, limited to half an
> > amp or so with a 10 ohm R intended to be used as a fuse in the event
> > of a load short.
> > 
> > Have the (unprintable comment) removed that power src from parportrs
> > these days?
> 
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