How much current can I draw from the data pins of a parallel port?

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Published on 2010-05-11T21:01:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 21:04 UTC
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I want to power something using the parallel port of on an old Dell Dimension 8200. How much current can be drawn from each of the 8 the data pins? I have pulled a maximum of 78mA/pin so far, but what is the upper limit? Can I short pins together to raise this limit?

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