On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:12:18 -0600, Phil Townsend wrote: >Seems to me most computers today are USB as a standard...
More of a "compromise" than a "standard". Laziness, cheapness, whatever. Why did they try to fix what wasn't broken? >I've put up with that stupid RS232 (standard???) for many more years than I >care to think. I use 9 - count 'em - NINE - serial ports on my "late model" whiz-bang computer -- it came with one serial port on the m/b but I added three dual serial port cards, ran out of slots (another gripe of mine - never enough slots) and then went to two USB-to-Serial adapters. I speak "RS-232" real well. I also had to add a USB sound adapter to give me a sound channel for digital data separate from the computer's built-in sound channel. I'm scared that my next computer won't have any serial ports. Just like going from my decades-long support of IBM's Warp-OS/2 operating system to Win XP, going to USB was surrendering to the Dark Side. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 5402 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
