Rumor has it that Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner may have mentioned these words:
>It was thus said that the Great Tom Jennings once stated:
> >
> > I like USB. Of course I don't develop for it :-)
They actually make a USB->RS232 single-chip interface. YMMV, as I've never
used it, but I do know it exists. (It would be neat to use my Kurta
digitizer on a USB port, to free up my lone serial port for other uses... ;-) )
[snippage]
> In thinking about this, there are actually *two* issues. One is the
>physical layer. Sure, serial is easy to wire up, even if one (or both) ends
>terminate in an odd-ball connector (like my first digital camera, or the
>Coco which uses a DIN-5 plug for serial, not a DB-25)....
[snippage]
*DIN-4*. And rather made of unobtanium as well... I *wish* it was DIN-5, as
those are still available (or at least findable).
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Wed Feb 02 2005 - 13:14:21 GMT