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This brought back a distant memory of when I bricked my very first MP3 player, a Rio 500. See when Rio 500 was being designed the mini-usb B spec was not final
by cmiller1 3y ago
This brought back a distant memory of when I bricked my very first MP3 player, a Rio 500. See when Rio 500 was being designed the mini-usb B spec was not finalized yet, so when it was released it came with what looked like a normal mini-usb cable for charging, but in fact the pin-out was different. At some point I tried plugging it in with post 2000 cable and it killed the device.
- h2odragon 3y agoIIRC, just before "miniB" actually hit; there was a lot of confusion and efforts to make something like it. Olympus and Fuji both had a USBC looking wingless connector on some USB cables, they'd used the same connector, but wired it differently. I was selling cables and adapters on ebay at the time and we had a package with both types. Easier to sell people both versions than deal with "oops i needed the other one." (I may well have mis-named the parties; apologies if so)