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Ribbon cables in a computer are mostly used for carrying data between devices. Sometimes they are used to carry supply voltages as well, but since they are usually lightweight, they are more commonly used for carrying data and control signals. The most common use is for floppy drives and hard drives. However, they can be used for connecting between different circuit boards, such as a mezzanine card - a type of controller card that has two circuit boards. There were also likely used in older mainframe computers since they contained so many circuit boards. On older Apple computers, they were sometimes used as printer cables too.

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