[rescue] Slightly OT: ?Bad Cap Saga

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:22:08PM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:
> >> I'm a bit saddened by missing serial, but I am not at all sad about
> >> missing parallel.
> >
> > I am.  I find parallel ports very useful for driving random digital
> > electronics.
> 
> I take it the $29 for a PCIe parallel port card is more than you're
> willing to pay then (and/or you're out of PCIe slots)?

He might not have PCIe slots to begin with.  I don't.

However, there are plenty of serial and/or USB ways to drive random
stuff.