Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months agoIf you had Macs, USB 1 was around a lot earlier, and really only good for peripherals and HID for a long time. FireWire and external SCSI drives were necessary because USB 1 wasn’t even viable for anything beyond external floppy drives. USB2 was a boon to external drives and bigger thumb drives, but took a while to arrive at the time.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think I had anything with USB1 in it. Even the early Pentium machines had USB2.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I built a Pentium 2 in 1998 and needed a separate pci card to add usb 1.1 (which was what most early Usb was) USB2 came out in 2000.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t remember either, it’s been a while. :)