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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Stop. Yall are triggering some PTSD here.
gpt
Worst 8 hours of tinkering I ever had with a computer. I bought a flatbed scanner which required a parallel port but I already had a printer connected. I bought one of those Super I/O ISA boards to add an extra port. Having to allocate IRQ and DMA for an extra board without breaking my modem and soundcard was mission impossible. If you had one of those early CD burners that needed a SCSI card then you just could not do all of that on one PC. You had to swap the printer and scanner cables whenever you needed to use one or the other.