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[Fernando Cassia]

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