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

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/18/06 11:55:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
k2asp at kanafi.org writes:


> IBM's EBDBIC (?) code.
> 

I think you meant EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code).

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On the subject of USB vs. RS-232, IMHO it's a design philosophy issue.

The design philosophy of the K2 is clearly one of getting the most 
performance from the least complexity & cost. USB was around back in 1999, but to 
implement it in the K2 then or now would mean a big jump in complexity & cost 
*without* a corresponding jump in performance.  

There's also the Elecraft philosophy of not making things that are already 
well-made by others. That's why you don't see Elecraft making power supplies - 
Astron and others already do that job. The emergence of inexpensive RS-232/USB 
converters solves the problem handily at low cost, and the special 
remove-this-pin interface cable can be incorporated into the converter lashup. Problem 
solved!

Elegantly, too.

73 de Jim, N2EY