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Does the article actually explain WHY?

• drivingmenuts 7y ago
  Yes. It would have required double the wires and circuits, increasing the expense of the cable. That would have made it a difficult sell to computer manufacturers. Not quite sure I follow that argument, but I'm not a hardware person. Nor am I looking to be one.
  • HeXetic 7y ago
    Doesn't explain why it wasn't made a trapezoid shape like many common connectors (serial, parallel, VGA, SCSI) of the time were.