On 18-Jul-97, SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:
>true, most everything has been done now. pnp and usb were/are trumpeted as
>new, but IBM ps/2's and macintoshes have had similar things in that the ps2
>was essentialy plug and play after running the reference disk, and macs have
> the adb which allows things to be chained into the keyboard cable. i'd like
>to hear of other examples also. i can't think of any more right now.
As has been mentioned in this list before, examples of USB-type setups
include the peripheral serial bus on both the Commodore and Atari 8bit lines.
These were truly flexible buses, though not the speediest of things. As for
the plug&play, that's always been a big feature of the Amiga, long before it
became one of the 'in' buzzwords. One could also look at the IEEE-488 bus
found on Pet's, Osborne's, and quite a few other computers and pieces of
equipment as a predecessor of the USB as well.
BTW, could someone tell me the 'proper' way of accessing the mainboard on
an Apple /// ? I have a 128k model, likely built in '81 or '82, and the
system diagnostics is leading me to think that the memory daughtercard might
possibly have worked loose.
Jeff Jeffh_at_unix.aardvarkol.com
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Received on Thu Jul 17 1997 - 11:42:35 BST