On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 15:31, Joe Zeff <joe(a)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