Hobbyist-to-USB adapter?

From: Rich Grise (null_at_example.net)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 01:38:56 GMT

Is there such a thing as a hobbyist-to-USB adapter? Or, maybe
the question should be, how hard is it to interface to a USB
port?

Where do you start looking for something like that? Google
"usb port spec", I suppose. ;-)

The reason I ask is that I was just sitting here musing about
this laptop I have - I can play video games on it with MAME.
So I could go to a bar and sit and play my computer. ;-)

Or, find some way to plug in a set of controls, and play
competitively in bars. >:->

My laptop[0] has a serial, LPT, 2x USB, 2X some card bus thingie
that takes something almost exactly the size of the Star Trek
"tapes," with a connector very much like an ordinary 40-pin
IDC header, but mini. It also says something about IR when it
boots. So I have a lot of options.

Let the melee begin!

Thanks,
Rich

[0]
IBM Thinkpad T30
P4 1.2GHz
Slack/WinXP
MAME ;-)

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