USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:13 AM
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>
>>  I tend to agree with you. We should be thinking this way.
>> Still, I believe that development work should be done in
>> an environment that is handy and convenient. The USB is
>> just a machine interconnect. One just has to keep in mind
>> what the final product will be like. In other words, don't
>> lock the design into one specific format.
>>  The only issue I have with USB is that it requires drivers
>> for each machine it is connected to. These have to be
>> specific to the USB device we use to interface with.
>> RS-232 is generic enough that we could run things from
>> text files using simple terminal modes on almost any machine.
>
> I dispute Barry's assertion that serial is going away.  Perhaps in
> consumer products it will be supplanted by USB.  But in development
> products and applications, and low level controller and embedded system
> devices, it'll be around for quite a while yet.
>
> I'd argue that the serial port is the most under-rated device is
> computing.  It is the most widely deployed communcations protocol and
> allows computers 1 month old to connect and transfer data to computers
> that are over 30 years old.
>
> As for Dwight's main argument that the interface is not the main focus, I
> agree.
>
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I keep forgetting, what is the most recommended way to hook up a dial up 
modem to Linux ;-)

I have never seen a modern PC without a serial port but if USB is absolutely 
required there are USB to serial adapters.


Randy
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