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Generally, no; modern computers have several USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports rather than the RS-232 serial ports, Centronics parallel (printer) ports, joystick/game ports or PS2 ports of older machines.

In addition, newer machines may have FireWire ports or eSATA ports. The newest computers will usually have USB3 ports rather than the older USB2; USB3 is several times faster than USB2.

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