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XJACK was great because then you didn't need a dongle, but my users kept breaking the XJACK. Super convenient but fragile.
by msarrel 2y ago
XJACK was great because then you didn't need a dongle, but my users kept breaking the XJACK. Super convenient but fragile.
- toast0 2y agoDongle sockets were pretty fragile too. I think the most robust were the cards where there was a regular sized jack at the end of the card, but those had to stick out from the end of the laptop, and if you had two stacked slots as was once common, you wouldn't be able to use two of those.
- adfm 2y agoThey had double-height PCMCIA cards without the pop-out that you could directly plug into. The Apple Newton was a PCMCIA device. It wouldn't take much for manufacturers to bring it back just by including it in a new design, but that would be too convenient, right? What I've witnessed recently is that the kids really want their buttons and switches and are sick of janky digital UI. And get a load of Apple wowing everyone with a button on the new iPhone 16! What is old is new again.