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This is the information I wanted. Thanks to all.

Tim Mitchell wrote:
> AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've been lurking for a while and have a question.
>>
>>I have bought a STK500 and wish to program it/monitor it with my
>>laptop. Only problem is that the laptop only has USB ports. I've
>>looked on the group to find mention of USB>parallel or
>>serial, but there does not seem to be any definitive answer as to
>>which ones work. 
>>
> 
> 
> I have found that all USB to serial converters (that I've tried, and
> I've tried lots) DO work with device programmers, and all USB to
> parallel converters do NOT work with device programmers.
> 
> I think this is because devices which use the parallel port tend to do
> odd things with it, which are not implemented in the converters.