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That might be because your father's computer has the usb ports mounted upside down. It happens very often though. And in some laptops you even have all combina
by landhar 16y ago
That might be because your father's computer has the usb ports mounted upside down.
It happens very often though. And in some laptops you even have all combinations at once: some mounted right, others upside down and one or two mounted vertically...
It's a mess...
- pyre 16y agoMore like the USB spec should have realized that the ports may end up in all sorts of configurations, especially on devices where they are trying to make the maximum amount of limited space (i.e. laptops, netbooks, etc). The connector was designed without really allowing normal people (or at least people are aren't 'in' on the group-think that can go on in working-groups) to try and use it.
- phillmv 16y agoYou know, back in '96 I can give them some slack for not necessarily thinking about that use case.
- regularfry 16y agoI can't. RJ11, RJ45, RS232 and PS2 plugs were already everywhere back then, and they were mounted every which-way. And they were all physically keyed at the connector such that you could figure it out blind. Bah and humbug, I say.
- LeonidasXIV 16y agoPlugging in PS/2 ports is the one single single port that sucks even more than USB, because instead of flipping and putting it in right, you have to rotate the connector and try until you succeed. Or you give up the blind thing and look how the port is mounted.
- electromagnetic 16y agoWith my desktop I have all sorts of combinations. One row is mounted right, the other is upside down and then there's a bus on the side that's aligned vertical.