[OT] USB KVM switches

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner may have mentioned these words:
>It was thus said that the Great Tom Jennings once stated:
> >
> > I like USB. Of course I don't develop for it :-)


They actually make a USB->RS232 single-chip interface. YMMV, as I've never 
used it, but I do know it exists. (It would be neat to use my Kurta 
digitizer on a USB port, to free up my lone serial port for other uses... ;-) )

[snippage]

>   In thinking about this, there are actually *two* issues.  One is the
>physical layer.  Sure, serial is easy to wire up, even if one (or both) ends
>terminate in an odd-ball connector (like my first digital camera, or the
>Coco which uses a DIN-5 plug for serial, not a DB-25)....

[snippage]

*DIN-4*. And rather made of unobtanium as well... I *wish* it was DIN-5, as 
those are still available (or at least findable).

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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