On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:23:27 -0500 "Graham Davies" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think if this was a problem it would have surfaced (a pun?) by now.
That's not good enough an argument ;-) Cars are crap and cause loads of problems... but people don't even bother complaing because there is no way out, so they just keep buying them ;-) > The only component that is likely to take a hit (the inductor that filters > the > power supply) is, in fact, secured with epoxy. The underside has an > insulating coating to avoid shorts with the target. All around the edge, > where you grip it, is ground plane. To my knowledge, nobody has ever zapped > an ICE-Cube. This however is/are very good arguments, you even managed to convince me ! > But, I'm not trying to persuade you, just inform you. You absolutely must > go with what looks best to you. Thanks for not putting too much pressure on me ;-) And as I said, now that I (will soon) have my Dragon, I won't be in the market for quite a few months probably anyway. > Absolutely right here. I would urge anyone working with embedded systems > not to buy a PC without a serial port. And, don't tell me this is hard to > do. Just don't get your PC at Wal-Mart. It is hard. A year ago when I looked at the market to renew/update my 6 year old motherboard, I could not find any that fit 100% my needs. Having a parallel port and at least one serial port was mandatory for me, but it restricted my choice with regards to other aspects of the board. Despite the zillions of motherboards out there, none of them were a perfect match. As for Wall mart, I don't know, we don't have them here.. and I never buy pre-assembled computers anyway, but I doubt other pre-assembled computers have serial ports anymore. Serial ports are useful to techies like us, but PC assembler don't sell for techies, they sell for the masses.. and the masses don't need a serial port anymore, not even a parallel port. Just Ethernet for internet, USB, USB, USB, and... USB. I have even seen motherboard where the rear I/O panel had lots of available space, yet they didn't even put a VGA, Serial or Parallel port, they just wasted the space doing nothing with it !! :-O That drove me mad... -- Vince _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
