Just a very brief update to advise that I have purchased and built a VELLEMAN USB I/O controller board.
After nearly 20 years I can still solder !!
The board is attached to a linux box running Ubuntu and I downloaded and built the drivers.Two files are needed to get up and running:
libusb-0.1.12.tar.gz
libk8055.tar.gz
Instructions
1. Unpack libusb into a [...]