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Quick preface, I have nothing but rudimentary EE education, only what I may call "common sense" sort of knowledge.
I have 3x serial (or parallel, actually) switches, used for printers at a now defunct call center, the entire centers'...
@NickAlexeev I'm not really waiting for the whole comment drama tbh. If I'd know pedantry was a requirement on trying to keep an analogy simple for a user that answer would not have existed, so I'm happier for it not to at all, though the reason is mostly the moany comments about what someone thinks the USB standard means to mean vs what I know to happen in the actual world of existing devices.