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Valmond@lemmy.world 5 months agoWell compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn’t need a driver to be manually installed and configured.
Windows 98 I guess.
Windows 98 SE, maybe. We didn’t gain much traction there until about Win2k or XP.
Windows 98 in its original flavor didn’t even support USB mass storage devices out of the box without drivers. Hands up everyone who remembers having to carry around one of those tiny driver CDs that came in the box with every single Sandisk Cruzer for a couple of years? Yeah? How quickly we forget.
Yeah usb came with 98-SP2 IIRC
Windows 98 SE doesn’t have it out of the box either. While it came well after Windows XP had taken over, in 2005 Maximus Decim released his USB drivers, which cobbles together USB mass storage drivers from newer versions of Windows, with modifications to get them working on Windows 98 with just an installer.
forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/win-98se-usb-is… msfn.org/…/43605-maximus-decim-native-usb-drivers…
By the way, if someone is looking to actually use it, I just want to warn that version 3.6 replaces the System Control Panel component with the one Windows ME, which has a different look and feel and misreports the OS version. Version 3.5 doesn’t do that and has worked with every flash drive I’ve tried, so I’d recommend that version.
I guarantee I will never use this information. But thank you anyway.
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AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My recollection is that USB on windows was kind of a dumpster fire until XP. Or maybe that was just printers in general.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hell I remember when USB on PCs was basically a set of pins on the motherboard and you had to buy the actual port assembly separately and hope there was somewhere reasonable on your case to mount it. Was going absolutely nowhere on PC until the iMac came and did away with all other ports and no peripherals built in.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I remember my sister winning an iPod and gave it to me, because she didn’t need it. I had to run to the computer store in town to purchase a USB deck for my motherboard. Fun times.
Hawke@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What is a “USB deck”?