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The article is so well-written I spent a few minutes confused and thinking I’d witnessed a new level of effort brought to marketing specific old-ish connectors
by svnt 4y ago
The article is so well-written I spent a few minutes confused and thinking I’d witnessed a new level of effort brought to marketing specific old-ish connectors to makers. But this person just loves doing this.
- klysm 4y agohackaday has tons wonderfully written content going back many years, their podcast is also good fun
- svnt 4y agoI haven’t listened to the podcast but have been reading hackaday for years. I like a lot of it but the level of polish in this piece just caught me for some reason.
- jpm_sd 4y agoI laughed at "old-ish" but then I had to look it up. Intel introduced NGFF / M.2 in 2012 - ten years ago! I've been tinkering with PCs for >30 years and thanks to subjective time dilation, if I'd had to guess, I would've said M.2 was no more than 5 years old...
- bombcar 4y agoI still default to thinking "SATA" when I think drive connector; took me decades to forget what PATA looked like!
- dylan604 4y agoSCSI with jumpers to set the SCSI ID and termination on internal drives. Cable select on primary/secondary drives in PATA that eliminated the need to set them via jumper. Why does someone else discussing old tech force us each to relive the badol'/goodol' days?
- bombcar 4y agoBecause there was real discovery. Just like playing old games and finding a secret room all by yourself without a walk through or the internet. SCSI was fun, much closer to USB in many ways.