> 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. also there seem to be a lot of dongles for specialist software that rely on having a paralell port. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist