Nice little board ..

[Jay Vaughan]

> I didn't like the comments posted below about parallel ports (and even
> serial ports) being a waste of space and obsolete. I still use the
> parallel port for programming micros, a midi interface and a few other
> diy bits and bobs.
>

For me its sort of essential these days, especially since there are  
devices like this currently needing to be plugged into:

http://metalab.at/wiki/LED-Matrix

> Fair enough there are general USB solutions now and even USB to
> serial/parallel adaptors, but that's just some more dingle-dangle shit
> hanging off the back ;)


yup.

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Jay Vaughan