If you have any old gear laying around, yall can have a lot of fun poking around with the parallel port :)
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We do have lots of older gear around. He has a good amount of experience with C (for his age, anyway).
Yeah man! Parallel stuff is fun, especially if you have old printers around, but since it's logic level you can just stuff wires into the port and make things like leds blink or machines do things by writing to a file.