re:OT Re: Interface. Gauging interest.

Now This is just funny!!! You think USB is the standard?

>On the other hand, I think there are a lot of people out there who
>are not tinkerers, and they just want a mill that plugs in like a
>printer.

Your highest quality printers EVER developed plugged into the parallel port (printer port) and then migrated to TCP/IP (ethernet) after 3 or 4 generations. Now, it is true that most modern(cheap) printers do plug into the USB. Just because the manufacturing sector declares that it is better does not make it better. Stand firm buy motherboards that have printer ports and serial ports(yes they are fading also). The consumer can drive the market!! Look at wireless printers are they better? They are a current thrust. There is no reason to have a wireless printer. You dont move a printer all over the building. You set it and forget it. The wireless lets them charge an extra $150-$200. And they are crap!!

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke