>Any Ideas or leads? Anyone familiar with the USB specification?

usb is nowhere near as friendly as RS232/485/whatever. The PIC end may not be too bad if you use the
new USB enabled pics - the source code I have looked at seemed pretty reasonable, but unless
microchip produce some nice PC side source code you will probably find that end of things a hard
slog.

Simon

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