On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > Parallel is IMHO completely dead. > If you're just wanting to use standard peripherals, maybe (can't remember the last time I connected one of those by parallel - certainly not in the 5 years I've had my current machine). However some of us on here surely want to do non-standard things - my latest use for it being for a cheapskate PC oscilloscope http://www.geocities.com/lptscope/hw.html Chris -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist