[OT] USB v "legacy" interfaces

[Fred Cisin]

There is at least one documented instance of a fatality from the
frustration of end-user RS232 interfacing.  (a user took a personal
computer (CP/M?)  and a serial printer to a store to have them connect
them; after several weeks without success, he shot and killed the store
owner.)


USB eliminates most end-user frustration, and replaces it with an
extraordinarily high level of frustration for hobbyists and developers.
What is the suicide rate?


Even I can build simple stuff that connects to RS232 and Centronics.
But I don't think that I will ever be able to build anything USB.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com