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They did, however, drop other ports which were in use. The Mac did have a wired keyboard, using some quasi-proprietary connection - and it was dropped, preventi
by ctdonath 12y ago
They did, however, drop other ports which were in use. The Mac did have a wired keyboard, using some quasi-proprietary connection - and it was dropped, preventing further use of old keyboards on new devices. Centronix and RS-232 (both 25- and 9-pin) connectors were ubiquitous, what with a great many devices available which could very well have been connected (printers, modems) and had been included on Apple products. Macs weren't _that_ different as to make strange the notion of attaching common peripherals to them.
- yellowapple 12y agoThey had 9-pin, but at least in the relatively-early days (i.e. back when the "Macintosh" brand was still pretty new), they didn't really have 25-pin in the sense of IBM-compatible PCs; the "printer" port was a 9-pin connector on the original Macintosh, for example, and the 25-pin ports eventually introduced were SCSI ports (certainly not Centronics ports). But yeah, peripheral compatibility was a big factor in adoption of Apple's computers. This is a compelling reason for them to have switched from their proprietary keyboard/mouse interface, for example, to USB.