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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 04 December 2006 14:08
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: RE: [PIC] Why the preoccupation with bus powered programmers?
>
>
>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

I think I'd have kludged a USB/PS2 power converter rather than paying for a new GPS!

Regards

Mike

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