What should I know about the 30B?

[TheKaneB]

Good to know, thanks!
I have yet to study all the options, at first I think I will go for a straight serial cable with a custom connector, but tell me if you know of a better alternative.

I have an old laptop with a real RS-232 port and full compatibility with Windows 9x and XP, that I use for those kind of projects (mainly to download stuff into old Commodore machines, but it's useful for uC programming too), so I don't have to fiddle around with USB adapters and crappy drivers.