hello all,

I want to read some data from the parallel port of my PC, the data would be in the from of strings. After some research I came to know that parallel port sends data bitwise (set of 8 bits). Now I do not know how to read each bit. Would it require the use of buffer IC's?
I don't know how to do it. Any help is solicited.

My target uC is 16f84

Thanks.