On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 15:31, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > Ha, ha, ha. It is to laugh. Clearly you don't remember "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.
The Amiga and Apple computers were paramount. In fact, even the parallel port in the Amiga is non-standard, although it is a DB25. For Video, they used a 23-pin db25-like connector... so people creating adapters at home had to use a DB25 female connector and saw off two pins in one end... FC -- 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
