4 May
2012
4 May
'12
4:39 p.m.
> I haev to agree with you. Somebody who can't
plug the cable from a thing
> with keys on it into a socket marked 'keyboard' (or with a little picture
> of a keyboard nest to it) probably shouldn't own a computer :-)
On Fri, 4
May 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
They have the SAME connector,
Well, YOUR PS/2 ones might.
My keyboard had the same connector as the cassette.
Which one of my machines had that same connector for the video, POWER!!
and cassette?
THAT was a bad move!
so from a usability pov it invites
mistakes. Sometimes, even non-technical people use computers. I've
noticed that they often don't identify sockets before attempting plugs.
Yes, I've seen people try to FORCE a 7 pin DIN into a 5 pin DIN - "square
peg into round hole"?
And proliferating physically incompatible connectors
seems to make less
sense than simply standardising a simple interface.
"easier to add entire additional microcontrollers to each (that didn't
previously need them) than to try to get people to only plug them in where
they fit"
Serial mouse, printer, keyboard, video shouldn't have posed any problems.
Although I do rmember a VERY short period of time when MICROS~1 peddled a
"BUS" mouse that used a female DE9 on its interface board!
How long should it take a "college instructor" to destroy the connectors
on a PC/JR?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com