On Wednesday, Apr 14, 2004, at 23:48 US/Pacific, Michael Rigby-Jones
wrote:

>> Seriously, if you didn't program pics, what would you use
>> your serial port for?
>
> Of the top of my head: Cell phone contact managers, PDA connectivity,
> GPS, terminal emulation, remote debugging, external modem
>
>
IRDA and built-in modems have replaced MOST of the things laptops used
to do with serial ports.  But it's still a bit weird for a laptop to
have only a parallel port.  For instance, serial to parallel and usb to
parallel adaptors are both more common (so far) than converters to
serial...

BillW

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