Serial, Parallel and USB 1.1 to mention a few.
If the printer is of an older type that has the appropriate logic circuits, connectors and compatiible printer driver software, a parallel port and/or a serial portcan be used if they are available on the pc.
A parallel port can be used to connect a large number of devices. The most common usage was for printers, although scanners, external disk drives, and network adapters also used this port. With a special cable, two computers could also be connected directly for sharing files.
Older type of graphics cards' port
internal parallel port
USB Port
connect it with a crossover cable connect both end to same type port either two gigabit port or two fast ehternet port
Powerdsine 12 Port Power Over Ethernet Hub is reasonable priced and is capable of connecting to 12 different computers, the next alternative is the HP 12 Port FiberChannel Hub which can also connect 12 machines, just not over ethernet.
which type of cables are used to connect computers inside subnet Alot of people just use cat 5.
An U.S.B cable.
You can connect computers through various type of ports (e.g. through Ethernet (wired or wireless) , USB or Serial port. What port you pick, will depend on your application needs and at what speed you want the connection to work. If two computers have 10/100Base-T Ethernet port these can be directly connected using a crossed Ethernet cable without need of a switch or hub. - Neeraj Sharma
PS/2 (mouse or/and keyboard) and USB (other stuff). Also video out port D-SUB, DVI and so on. On older computers you can find COM and LPT.
usb