Roger wrote:

They are nuts if they change it as the vast majority will still be
using USB. Since the coming of XP which is the predominant OS most
motherboards and systems talk to the rest of the world through USB
although some still have a single serial port. and a firewire
connection.

This is the problem with 430/530's stupid assed proprietary
datacard. The MX20/GNS480/GX200 line uses standard Windows
Filesystem on CF (or SD for the 200) cards. They give you a
standard sandisk programmer with the unit, but the software
knows nothing about it really, it just looks for a removable
file system with the appropriate media/volume id's in the
header. I use the regular CF programmer slot I use for
my digital camera.