Re: Black box again

List,

I don't have all the answers, but I know that the USB connectors are
MEANT to be hot-pluggable, the power pins are a little longer, so they
supply power to the USB device first and last. The interface can detect
when a device is attached/removed. The cables are NOT symmetrical, you
can't swap the ends, and they are keyed.

Yeah, I like the parallel port's pins! Perhaps a "USB parallel port"
will give us back our pins? Anyone tried one?

So what's fire and forget? Sounds like weapons talk to me!

Alan KM6VV


JanRwl@... wrote:

>
> In a message dated 27-Jun-01 13:25:37 Central Daylight Time, KM6VV@...
> writes:
>
> > "fire and forget"? USB's are getting easier to play with on the device
> > end, anyhow. The PC side?
>
> Whew... Maybe it makes me seem like the olde phart I AM, but I like havin'
> all-13+GND. lines which can be addressed individually, and, well, any
> "software" is easily home-brewable!
>
> Why is that "USB" connector so STRANGE, as if from an alien technology???
>
> Jan Rowland, admitted geriatric with attitude