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Back in 97 they probably just meant the pre-usb serial plug, that was good for mice and modems.
by stuaxo 12y ago
Back in 97 they probably just meant the pre-usb serial plug, that was good for mice and modems.
- JohnBooty 12y agoThey probably meant ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoDid anybody use that old rs232 thing anymore in 1997? I would have guessed the author meant PS2.
- fredoralive 12y agoPeople did tend to use those "modem" things back in the days.
- reitanqild 12y agoStuff I work with still uses rs232. In fact rs232 is still being used in new systems today :-) Edit: before anyone thinks I'm stupid: it pays well, I get to work in interesting places and I dont have to wrangle appstore guidelines, java gc, android etc. Have to wrestle some windows systems though.
- twoodfin 12y agoMacs of that vintage generally came with 9-pin RS-232 serial, SCSI, and Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) ports.
- leejoramo 12y agoI recall that Mac's had RS-422.
- sweis 12y agoI use old-fashion serial cables for kernel development in 2014. It would be hard to debug without it. Sometimes you have bugs on physical systems that aren't reproducible in a VM and can only get any output via a physical serial cable. For what it's worth, I also use serial-over-LAN to administer remote machines and virtual serial devices in VMs for security purposes.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoWell I was mostly thinking consumer machines, I totally forgot about industrial and lab stuff. Sorry all.