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In no particular order: - Punch cards - Tape punch/readers - Dot-matrix printers, in fact impact printers of any sort - Serial interfaces - Parallel interf
by zabzonk 5y ago
In no particular order:
- Punch cards
- Tape punch/readers
- Dot-matrix printers, in fact impact printers of any sort
- Serial interfaces
- Parallel interfaces
- Whatever that purple (or was it green?) plug was called that you used to plug your keyboard/mouse into
- Zip drives
- ISA and MCA buses
I could go on.
Edit: Some of these are simply things that have gone obsolete in my lifetime.
- Jtsummers 5y ago> - Whatever that purple (or was it green?) plug was called that you used to plug your keyboard/mouse into Purple was keyboard, green was mouse. PS/2 Port: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port
- zwieback 5y agoYou've seen punch cards COME? Holy crap! +1 on the dot matrix printers, I was proud owner of an Epson LQ400.
- zabzonk 5y agoWell, no I agree (also tape) but I did have to write a card punch emulator (on IBM PC) when we could no longer support our physical punches - maintenance costs were huge. I guess I am sometimes listing things that have simply become obsolete, though some have come and gone in my lifetime - but don't get me started on software!