> Someday we'll look back and laugh (or cry) at our early USB struggles.
Hah, sounds like the editor is someone too young to have used serial/parallel/vga ports. Early business PCs, for what ever reason[1] were built like tanks. They weighed dozens of kgs/pounds. And the connectors were often screwed in with a screwdriver for good measure.
Yes, you could wing it when being sloppy, but they weren't always very tight and cables heavy so you'd want them screwed in for a long-term installation to avoid issues.
When USB came out it was a revelation that you just needed to pop it in and were done. Yes, you'd have to look at it first, but that was the same with every other port of before that. I remember PS/2 being perhaps hardest to line up correctly.
So USB 1.0 fixed one problem, but not every problem. Not exactly a reason to cry.
[1] Probably inertia from main/minicomputers which were serious installations and needed to keep running through wartime. :-/
Hah, sounds like the editor is someone too young to have used serial/parallel/vga ports. Early business PCs, for what ever reason[1] were built like tanks. They weighed dozens of kgs/pounds. And the connectors were often screwed in with a screwdriver for good measure.
Yes, you could wing it when being sloppy, but they weren't always very tight and cables heavy so you'd want them screwed in for a long-term installation to avoid issues.
When USB came out it was a revelation that you just needed to pop it in and were done. Yes, you'd have to look at it first, but that was the same with every other port of before that. I remember PS/2 being perhaps hardest to line up correctly.
So USB 1.0 fixed one problem, but not every problem. Not exactly a reason to cry.
[1] Probably inertia from main/minicomputers which were serious installations and needed to keep running through wartime. :-/