On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> On 2/5/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

They are common enough ;-(

> I will say to buy a usb-parallel to just build a cheap programmer is a
> very strange idea. ;-)

In the 21st century ? You have a retrograde way of thinking ;-)

Peter
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