> support. pretty much every device has a serial port.
hahaha
legacy-free (== USB-only) is catching on, but even without that, many
systems had a serial port that is (1) already hooked to something (2)
on the floor under the desk with the machine (3) if it *isn't* hooked
to something, the BIOS config is wrong anyway.
in otherwords, prepare for frustration. Also note the popularity of
the "keyboard wedge" for input devices, like barcode scanners -- the
port is still hidden somewhere, but at least (1) you know the keyboard
works (2) you don't need any special software to do user-commanded
input into an application (though you can still write drivers to talk
to the device explicitly...)
given lead time for actually developing such a device, it may also
suffice to just treat it as a USB frob (since you eventually want to
scale down to something like the USB Flash-drives, small enough to
hang on a keychain -- but *with* challenge-response...)
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