[rescue] Slightly OT: ?Bad Cap Saga

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:20:40PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
>> (2)(b) Because the same port is useful to plug in other things.
> 
> But hopefully no one will encourage that.

Seconded.  Most of the "other things" that were made to plug into the
parallel port were made that way because, even though it worked like
crap (if it worked at all), it was a lot cheaper than giving the device
a real bus interface like, say, SCSI.


-- 
  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
  alaric at caerllewys.net   alaric at metrocast.net   phil at co.ordinate.org
         Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                 It's not the years, it's the mileage.