USB-based flash-mems have flooded the market, and are very cost effective. Yet still many machines in use don't have USB ports.
Apparently the USB-based flash-mem-sticks are SCSI based. Which will be replaced first [by USB]: ser [RS232] or par-port ?
I always thought of the par-port [centronics] as being the most 'universal', and that's why Iomega chose the make a par-port external Zip-drive. Probably the par-port, even with minimum input lines - 3 I think - is faster than RS232 ?
There could be a lot of users for adaptors for USB-flash.
Including a notebook, of my 4 machines only one has USB-ports. So a main advantage of USB-flash tranporting data between machines is not available. Diskette is becoming increasingly unreliable and annoying ?
== Chris Glur.