Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> Are USB-parallel converters common at all? To be honest, I have not
>> seen a physical one yet. USB-seral converter is much more common.
> 
> Both in the computer shops in town and at my main supplier they are as
> common as a serial converter, and cheaper. Maybe because they don't need
> a voltage converter. But the big centronics connector makes them clumsy.

The cheapest hit on pricewatch.com has a db25 female connector; that's
better to use than the Centronics. 

But it still costs $13 (and the warranty sounds kind of strange). If the
goal is to make a low-cost PIC programmer, a programmed PIC for a "real"
programmer is probably cheaper.

Gerhard

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