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Who couldn’t use a little more screen space?
Text LCD’s are handy for any occasion, a printer port on your PC is also darn handy as well. Mix together and add in a splash of linux and you get a very handy Linux device driver for a 16×2 LCD connected to the parallel port.
Electrically the LCD is wired up in a typical 4 bit mode, this allows the parallel port to use its 8 bit data
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