[rescue] Slightly OT: ?Bad Cap Saga

[der Mouse]

> I'm a bit saddened by missing serial, but I am not at all sad about
> missing parallel.

I am.  I find parallel ports very useful for driving random digital
electronics.  I've built some three or four circuits designed to be
driven off a parallel port, and it was a good deal easier than doing
the corresponding thing with a serial port would have been.  (This is
probably at least partially an artifact of what's in my toolbox, as it
were, but I don't see that that invalidates the point.)

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