[Elecraft] Wayne...Eric...K2 with USB anytime soon??

[Phil Kane]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:12:18 -0600, Phil Townsend wrote:

>Seems to me most computers today are USB as a standard...

  More of a "compromise" than a "standard".  Laziness, cheapness,
  whatever.  Why did they try to fix what wasn't broken?

>I've put up with that stupid RS232 (standard???) for many more years than I
>care to think.

  I use 9 - count 'em - NINE - serial ports on my "late model"
  whiz-bang computer -- it came with one serial port on the m/b
  but I added three dual serial port cards, ran out of slots
  (another gripe of mine - never enough slots) and then went to
  two USB-to-Serial adapters.  I speak "RS-232" real well.  I
  also had to add a USB sound adapter to give me a sound channel
  for digital data separate from the computer's built-in sound
  channel.  I'm scared that my next computer won't have any
  serial  ports.

  Just like going from my decades-long support of IBM's Warp-OS/2
  operating system to Win XP, going to USB was surrendering to
  the Dark Side.

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   5402