--- "Clint Wolff (VAX collector)" <vaxman_at_qwest.net> wrote:
>
> I've heard 'dongle' refer to the parallel port security keys way
> before laptops an PCMCIA cards, so I would say fiction...
>
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
> > BTW While talking to someone at the Santee swapmeet, he told me the origine
> > of the word dongle is from the person who invented the short adapter
> > cables, Don Gall. Fact or fiction?
I first heard the term dongle in reference to a joystick-port security
device for a game on the C-64. This would have been c. 1982. Even then,
the legendary "Don Gall" was a persistent rumor. I think someone else
on the list has already expounded the marketing aspect of the name.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 09:06:23 BST