Soliloquy wrote:

starman wrote in :

Dear Mark and Starman, rather than neurose this link into infinity by
reasserting that the RS232 Standard was omitted since Yaesu had an
insidious plot to overthrow the economy by forcing people to buy the
adapter, why don't you offer evidence, in the form of URLs, to pages that
discuss the prevalence of RS232 ports on other similarly priced equipment
of the time?


Don't know why you're getting defensive.

I didn't imply a conspiracy, or that profit was a bad thing. I mentioned Lowe
made a similar decision.

If they couldn't make a profit, they'd have little incentive to make the radio.

My guess is they expected leaving the parts out of the radios for people who
didn't care about the port would do more for the bottom line than selling the
accessory for those who wanted the capability.