28 Feb
2012
28 Feb
'12
11:13 a.m.
On 2/27/2012 2:13 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I think my views on USB are well-know. The name is wrong. It's not
universal (in that of the 200+ computers I own, not one has a USB port or
can have a USB port), it is serial, but it certainlt isn't a bus/ Still,
1 out of 3 is better than nome, I guess.
I feel that the idea od a 'universal' interface is stupid. It makes about
as much sense as a universal motor vehicle, which will win a Grand Prix,
carry a family to town and back economically, carry may tonnes of frieght
and withstand a driect hit from a medium-sized shell.
USB zeems to be over-compicated for a lot of applications. I've read the
spec and it made my head spin. I would not want ot have to implement that
in simple gates and/or transistors. But I can do that with GPIB, RS232,
etc
No, it's a useless serial botch.
And how many times have we all been told that
$product is not compatible
with whatever compute we're using and that we should buy a new computer?
Don't tell be you beleive that...
I am still thinking what deity came up with USB? How many good printers, keyboards and mice tossed out because of that? Then
again I am grumbling
because I still have yet to find a Stereo system I like. Every few years and
Problem is, good ones are old and expensive. And so are replacement KT66s....
cheaper and crappier media comes out and tries to
replace at higher cost
the old format. 8 track comes to mind , it is still better than the new
I think I prefer reel-to-reel tape. At 7.5ips at least, prefereably 15ips.
multi-button
audio of today but to save a few cents they used the cheapest cases possible
and runed that media.
Hmm.. The idea ofd an endless loop cartirdige wit the tape having to slip
voer itself does bother me.
-tony