At 12:05 PM 8/19/2008 , der Mouse wrote: >> I'm a bit saddened by missing serial, but I am not at all sad about >> missing parallel. > >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.) Yep, there's no easy replacement for a parallel port. It's the closest thing we have to a standardized geek port. In my case, the add-on PCI parallel port card didn't work, but that's a combination of the port, windows, and the braindead closed source driver that only knows about the three legacy parallel port I/O addresses. -- newell