21.   It connects via USB instead of the pokey and unreliable parallel port, holds more music and has a simplified set of controls.

22.   It comes with an adapter that plugs into a standard computer parallel port.

23.   It also comes with an excellent software bundle and, of course, can plug into either a USB or parallel port.

24.   It routes communications to the parallel port of a personal computer, instead of the serial port, and then compresses the data.

25.   It plugs into a parallel port on a PC or a serial port on a Macintosh.

26.   It will also work with Linux and uses a parallel port to connect to the computer.

27.   Nor could the computer find a Xip drive that had been attached via the parallel port.

28.   Nor could the computer find a Zip drive that had been attached via the parallel port.

29.   Often, the parallel port drives conflicted with printers or scanners that were also connected.

30.   Not only is it balky, but it uses the parallel port many computers use for their printer.