This equipment was in before I grew an interest in PC's and is now outdated. I have an external component that has a male 25 pin D-sub Parallel connector. I believe these where used for printers back in the day.
I can use a DB25 male-female cable to connect to it but I don't have this port on my PC. Is there a PCI adapter that I can install to my motherboard to get this too work?
This is what I need to connect to the PC.
Also I know that some components will not work the same if you use a connect that goes to USB. I think PCIe is an example in that you cant simply hook up a graphics card to work through a USB port or something. But is this similiar with the parallel port?
I might have answered my own question, if I get something like this will I need software to make it work with the computer that didn't come with it. Or will windows find that for me.
And can I be limited by getting a x1 version instead of an x16 version of the cards?
I can use a DB25 male-female cable to connect to it but I don't have this port on my PC. Is there a PCI adapter that I can install to my motherboard to get this too work?
This is what I need to connect to the PC.

Also I know that some components will not work the same if you use a connect that goes to USB. I think PCIe is an example in that you cant simply hook up a graphics card to work through a USB port or something. But is this similiar with the parallel port?
I might have answered my own question, if I get something like this will I need software to make it work with the computer that didn't come with it. Or will windows find that for me.
And can I be limited by getting a x1 version instead of an x16 version of the cards?
