holy shit USB turned 30 years old earlier this year
in January
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@fluffy I'm in this toot and I don't like it.
they do not understand the paaaaaain
@fluffy@plush.city they don’t know what it was like to pull an RS-232c lead or a Centronics lead through a tangle of other cables fruitlessly until you’ve reached through and untangled it enough to drag it a bit further, at which the twiddly-sticky-out bits will catch on all the cables yet again, and so on
@u0421793 they won't understand assigning I/O ports and IRQs and sometimes DMA channels, using jumpers, trying to find the combination that lets you connect your mouse AND your printer AND your sound card all at once
@fluffy@plush.city aha, I didn’t have to get involved in any of that nonsense, I only ever used Macs (or Atari STs) and they just worked. But we had SCSI and terminators and fussy chains of peripherals such as some SCSI hard drives which can be used together with a Magneto-Optical disc drive, and only in certain order of connections or with certain SCSI leads, but not if it is Tuesday or you’re wearing green socks
@u0421793 with every horror of SCSI, IDE/ATAPI had something much worse
there are software engineers who were not alive when peripherals weren't USB