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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (62554)	8/16/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Pcs are also converting to USB fairly soon so your going to have to face this issue. I'm sure some PC makers will keep parallel ports longer than others and as I mentioned there are adapters. Among the advantages of USB are the much longer cords allowable, the daisy chaining of peripherals, the enhanced power supply thru the port that allows some peripherals to do away with power cords and most importantly hot swappability. While it remains to be seen if Apple has achieved the nirvana of hot swappability, the goal remains important to the industry. Imagine a world where you son can plug in his USB guitar (An existing PC peripheral that coaches him with lighted frets) without having to reboot or do anything but click the program open. Later your daughter plugs in her drawing tablet to make some computer art. Still later you plug in your midi synthesizer to compose some music. Get the picture? Rich