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Randy, I like the look of the JMRI and the SPROG sounded promising until....I got to the set up part. A chart with values that you need to figure out a binary number to enter somewhere. Sigh. I know binary. I've use it in programming for computers. But it's the last thing in the world most model railroaders should have to deal with. Maybe this is what's holding this area of DCC back - the [censored] computer geek aura. I'm trying to figure out a comparison. It's almost like a TV manufacturer offering a TV that has a remote, but you have to program each channel into a specific memory location. And you have to it in binary. And, oh yeah, you have to buy another interface to use the remote and the software to do it is free but you have to download it from someone else and it's written in JAVA.Aaaarrgghhh!I think where I'm going with this is why should a DCC user have to go through all that? Why don't the makers offer it with the purchase? If I buy a router, printer, or other computer peripheral, I sure expect it to be plug n play with a CD and any needed software included. Why shouldn't DCC be that way?I think Chip is right when he says the first ones to wake up and put a USB interface on one and the software to go with it will start it all in motion.Mike T.
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