Cereal port: Battle Creek, Michigan. (Q&A).

Q. I have been reading up on interfacing the serial and parallel ports on my computer. However, it seems that while the parallel port always uses a 25-pin connection, the serial port sometimes uses a 25-pin as well as the 9-pin connection. I was wondering how to tell if a 25-pin jack/plug was for serial or parallel use. Thank you.--J.R., via e-mail

A. Well, the tide sounded cute at first. discovered that Battle Creek, the serial ... uh, cereal capital of the world, isn't even on one of the lakes. They have HOMES there, but not the kind I needed this time.

When I built my ...

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