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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

"Work" computers will often have legacy ports because maybe you need it to connect to some old printer.

There are a lot of places still using old-style dot matrix printers or other weird old hardware. Point-of-sale systems made to this day often come with a bunch of serial, or not quite serial, ports.