17 Jun
2013
17 Jun
'13
9:09 p.m.
I read earlier post as USB being friendly.
> Though I suppose it's a question of "friendly to what/whom"....
True!
Especially when "misused" for that for which it was not intended.
RS232 had a documented fatality - a homicide directly attributed
to frustration of DTE (microcomputer) to DTE (printer) interfacing.
I was luckier,
I succeeded in getting ink onto paper with my first serial printer
(DTC-300 Hytype 1) connected to TRS80 Model 1 after about 5 weeks.
But, the only way that I ever got text into a Merganthaler was with
a box of solenoids sitting on its keyboard, and that was slower than
my publisher's wife's typing.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com