mstechca
New Member
if you continue in electronics and want to interface your circuit(s) to a computer, I suggest that you do not buy brand new computers. Why? because they lack things.
Here's a scenario to show you what I mean:
I have a computer in my house that I still use. It is a P1. The good thing about it is that the motherboard has ISA slots, PCI slots, parallel port, 2 serial ports, a PS2 port, and two USB ports. This allows me flexibility when I decide to make a circuit that interfaces with the computer. Of course the only bad thing about it is that I could use a faster processor, but for most applications, even a 486 is fine :lol:
My friend has recently bought two new computers. A laptop, and a Desktop. The laptop has a 1.4Ghz processor, and the desktop has a 733Mhz processor. My processor is way lower than 733Mhz.
Anyways, I look all over his two computers (except for the insides), and there is not a single parallel port on any computer. I think there is just one serial port on his 733Mhz desktop.
Question is, why would they provide a serial port instead of a parallel port, when a parallel port is faster?
And another question is, why are computer manufacturers FORCING us or at least trying to force us to use USB ports even if we have hardware that supported parallel and serial ports?
Are these computer manufacturers trying to make the landfill the tallest thing in the world????
these manufacturers must not be environmentally friendly.
also, I don't see the gameport on the new computers. Why don't they just leave the ports on?
and I read in another thread that a user saw in his CMOS setup options for the serial port, but the serial port is not in the computer. So if the computer manufacturers are STUPID enough to leave the serial port options in the computer, why are they STUPID enough to remove the physical port?
these people don't make any sense to me!
Here's a scenario to show you what I mean:
I have a computer in my house that I still use. It is a P1. The good thing about it is that the motherboard has ISA slots, PCI slots, parallel port, 2 serial ports, a PS2 port, and two USB ports. This allows me flexibility when I decide to make a circuit that interfaces with the computer. Of course the only bad thing about it is that I could use a faster processor, but for most applications, even a 486 is fine :lol:
My friend has recently bought two new computers. A laptop, and a Desktop. The laptop has a 1.4Ghz processor, and the desktop has a 733Mhz processor. My processor is way lower than 733Mhz.
Anyways, I look all over his two computers (except for the insides), and there is not a single parallel port on any computer. I think there is just one serial port on his 733Mhz desktop.
Question is, why would they provide a serial port instead of a parallel port, when a parallel port is faster?
And another question is, why are computer manufacturers FORCING us or at least trying to force us to use USB ports even if we have hardware that supported parallel and serial ports?
Are these computer manufacturers trying to make the landfill the tallest thing in the world????
these manufacturers must not be environmentally friendly.
also, I don't see the gameport on the new computers. Why don't they just leave the ports on?
and I read in another thread that a user saw in his CMOS setup options for the serial port, but the serial port is not in the computer. So if the computer manufacturers are STUPID enough to leave the serial port options in the computer, why are they STUPID enough to remove the physical port?
these people don't make any sense to me!