3 Sep
2006
3 Sep
'06
8:16 p.m.
On 9/4/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 9/3/2006 at 8:57 PM Scott Quinn wrote:
Besides the fact that Sun was about the only vendor using the DD50,
there still isn't room for a connector that wide on the back of a Mac
plus.
-ethan
I had heard that Apple did the DB-25 thing because
the HD-50 hadn't been
standardized yet and they didn't have enough back-panel real estate on the
Plus for a 50-pin ribbon/Centronics type.
Wonder why a DD50 wasn't used? Probably because the DB25 was cheap and
easy to get?