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To: Joe NYC who wrote (63413)	11/11/2001 3:12:18 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Joe: That pretty much sums it up. In reference to: It should be noted that the Parallel port isn't much better. [than USB] That quote is taken a bit out of context. I wasn't trying to say that USB was bad, but that parallel ports suck ;-) My own personal experiences with USB (unlike others here, it seems) have been very good. Much faster, much less hassle. I've never once experienced a single USB-related problem (but then I've only used a relatively short array of USB items, such as printers, scanners and mice). This is quite the reverse of my experiences with parallel and serial ports (which are quite nice to use in more "scientific" scenarios, however, since it's very easy to solder the output of some device onto the pins of the port). (It should be noted that I didn't buy a system with USB support before late-1998.) -fyo