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What gets me about the keyboard/mouse ports is that it took over ten years for them to get a colour coding standard! The green/purple spec came out in 99, by wh
by reitzensteinm 16y ago
What gets me about the keyboard/mouse ports is that it took over ten years for them to get a colour coding standard! The green/purple spec came out in 99, by which time USB was already starting to take off.
- tomsaffell 16y agoFunny story: I was working on USB at IBM in '98, and because of the new green/purple color convention for PS2, the designers wanted to similarly color-code two of the USB ports green/purple. It took a little explaining, and pointing at the USB 1.0 spec to convince the design folks that it wasn't a good idea.
- astrodust 16y agoWhen people need to know where the "Any" key is, maybe having a suggested port for mouse and keyboard wasn't such a bad idea.
- pixelbath 16y agoDidn't Packard Bell invent the green/purple standard?
- jacquesm 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_97 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_97