On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 22:09 +1100, Tony Smith wrote:
> In the real world, serial is almost dead (the occasional 56k modem), and I'm
> surprised that parallel has hung on for so long.  Must be a lot of old
> printers out there.
> 
> A Dell laptop I had recently had both a serial & a parallel port, but no
> PS2.  I thought that was odd.  

Yes, and it bit me pretty bad once. When I was buying a laptop a serial
port was very important since the GPS units I had were both serial. It
wasn't until I bought the laptop and tried using the SECOND GPS that I
discovered it didn't have a PS2 port. The PS2 port of course power many
GPS serial devices. Had to actually go out and buy a USB GPS device on
the road, very annoying, but all my fault.

TTYL

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