[Elecraft] USB one more time

[Margaret Leber]

John A. Rodenbarger wrote:

> I'm running the Peggy from the USB port, through one of those "dongles" (a
> misnomer, since a Dongle is a device that frustrates both techs and software
> pirates equally)

"Dongle" used to be a term for those software crypto deviced that 
attached to your parallel port and authenticated your machine to run sme 
expensive proprietary package. I have to agree with the tech frustration 
part, having worked for a company who tried those once.

But in recent times "dongle" has come to apply to any extra bit of 
circutry attached to a cable. I've heard it applied to those little PITA 
gadgets that let you plug an RJ-45 ethernet plug into a PCMCIA card. 
You know the ones: you leave them in a hotel room and then have to 
replace them for $80 a pop.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/dongle.html

  73 de Maggie K3XS


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