On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>  > 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.

I had forgotten about that! And how much you want to bet the USB smarts
are in fact in that Centronics head.

Three wire serial does seem to be the real target then.

BAJ
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