Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months agoStrange. I always thought they were the exact same port. Because most of the time you would need a sound card to plug in a joystick. And nowadays I can’t use my MS Force Feedback because all the USB adaptors don’t implement all of the MIDI stuff the joystick needs to run the force feedback.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh you are right, I misremembered: what actually happened was that I was indeed going for the MIDI port of my SoundBlaster card but found a matching socket in my networrk card!
I will update my comment to correct this.