Re: Interface for CNCPro, etc.

> It is hard to beat the price of a generic parallel port interface card, so
> the external buffer/ts board might make the most economic sense. Keeps the
> fire out of the box too.

This gives me another idea: we are rapidly approaching the day where a
commodity PC costs less than specialized I/O or interface boards.
Perhaps the computer should be considered expendable? I mean, go
ahead and gain whatever degree of protection is cheap and easy, but
it's not worth spending a couple hundred bucks on limited production
hardware to protect a couple hundred bucks worth of mass produced
computer.

Chris

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