Bob Barr wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:38:26 +0800, Peter Crowcroft wrote:
>
> >1. Tony Nixon has designed a USB port PIC programmer for all Flash
> >PICs. It has no external power supply. Mostly surface mount only the
> >3mm bi-LED pokes up out of the box next to the 40 pin wide-slot ZIF
> >socket (supplied.) It has a no-keypress mode for volume programming.
> >The buyer will only have to solder the bi-led and the ZIF socket.
> >
> >See photos at
> >
> >http://www.kitsrus.com/jpg/k128_1.jpg
> >
> >http://www.kitsrus.com/jpg/k128_2.jpg
> >
> >It is now in production and I hope to release it about april 3 before
> >I shoot off to the Amazon River for 12 days.
> >
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here but that USB connector sure looks
> like a host connector (type A) rather than a device connector (type B
> or mini-B). If that's really the case, where are you getting cables
> for it?
>
> Normally USB cables are A-to-B or A-to-mini-B. AFAIK, type A to type A
> cables aren't allowed under the USB spec.

It's most likely a type A male, the mating part ot the host connector
(PC end) is type A female. Type A male / type A female extension
leads are what it would use and they seem to be in common use and are
available in catalogs.

Don't know what the standard says about type A to type A but two
different USB devices I recently purchased came with leads like this.
One was a USB1.1 IrDA adapter and the other a USB2.0 Flash card
reader. You have the option of plugging the device directly into your
PC or use the extension cable.

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