On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:31 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > "the connector conspiracy." For those of you lucky enough not to go > back that far, there was a time when every company had its own > proprietary connector and you couldn't connect one company's > peripheral to any other company's computer without some sort of > adapter, usually sold by a third party.
Which was only ever partially compatible... That's been the bane of my life for over twenty years, though I've always called them "profit plugs." I work in video production, just about every camera has different connectors, or has re-used the same connector in a different and incompatible way. The peripherals are all different, too. The lens fittings, the accessories, etc. If a major component dies, everything around it needs replacing. e.g. The camera head becomes unserviceable, you can't just replace it. You have to replace the camera, the lens, the viewfinder, the studio cable, the CCU. The new lot doesn't really fit in with your other cameras, so you end up replacing a whole system of cameras. Or, for a non-studio system. You replace the camera, lens, viewfinder, the attached VCR. Now the new one is a different format from the VCRs in your edit suite, so that has to be replaced, too. I can't say how much I hate manufacturers who play lock-in games. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
