[Elecraft] K3: USB port

[Rick Prather]

Well said Guy!

We should call this a Zombie Thread!

Rick
K6LE

On 11/18/2010, at 5:40 , Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:

> READ the archives on this.  The USB suggestion has been beaten to a
> bloody pulp over and over again. This subject is like Count Dracula.
> It's like the undead coming out of the corn fields.
> 
> The devil in the proposal is having your K3 fail every time Microsoft
> decides to make another of its several million arbitrary subtle OS
> changes, this time to how Universal (ha! Ha!) serial bus actually
> operates.  And WE will NOT be tested before they dump that into their
> automatic updates to a gazillion copies of MS OS, because we do NOT
> have 20 million K3 users out there to make the consequences of blowing
> us up scare them into actually checking FIRST if it blows us up or
> not, BEFORE they release it.  Come to think of it, based on the
> record, 20 million isn't really enough, is it?  The *U* in USB is a
> complete joke.
> 
> Somebody kill this idea and make it die, and stay dead, please...
> 
> 73, Guy