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>A year later in 1987, IBM released its new vision of the PC, called PS/2; it only offered a standard port for the mouse and another identical but unique port f
by narkee 16y ago
>A year later in 1987, IBM released its new vision of the PC, called PS/2; it only offered a standard port for the mouse and another identical but unique port for the keyboard, a mistake that would plague PC users for the next two decades
Hmmm - for as long as I can remember the keyboard ports were colored purple, and the ones for mice were like a teal. I feel like the frequency of plugging in one's keyboard/mouse doesn't warrant it being called a plague.
- protomyth 16y agoThe colors came a little later (PC97) and were much welcomed.
- winthrowe 16y agoPerhaps you're not old enough to recall, but that colour coding was indroduced with the PC97 standard[1], in 1997. While 'plague' is over the top, it was a great annoyance for a decade. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide
- gojomo 16y agoHow far back do you remember? The color-coding wasn't part of a standard until a decade later; I suppose some vendors might have started doing it sooner, but for many years you usually had to read a tiny icon, often simply plastic-embossed rather than using any ink contrast at all, on a dark and hard-to-reach part of the computer.