On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:05:57PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: >I am. I find parallel ports very useful for driving random digital >electronics. I've built some three or four circuits designed to be >driven off a parallel port, and it was a good deal easier than doing >the corresponding thing with a serial port would have been. (This is >probably at least partially an artifact of what's in my toolbox, as it >were, but I don't see that that invalidates the point.) Ok, so you expect Joe Consumer to pay for a port that you use for experimenting? I don't even think you can buy a NEW parallel port printer, why should 99.99999999% of the people buying computers pay for the ability to plug in a printer they can't buy? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM