> Personally I suspect the most reliable way to do it would 
> be a USB-Printer
> > port set up as a basic text only printer, and then fed 
> repeated characters
> > with one bit of the ASCII character being the clock, and 
> one bit the serial
> > data.

A big (literally) disadvantage of usb-parallel converters is that all
versions I have seen have a cnetronics-male connector, which is bulky,
and the corresponding female connector is not as easy to find as a DB9.
A slight advantage is that usb-parallel conveters are somewhat cheaper
than usb-serial converters.

Wouter van Ooijen

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