Re: Airport cards for G3 iMac - is someone joking on price?

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:01:06 +0100,
real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D.M. Procida) wrote:

Hardly anything except Macintoshes had USB back then. PCs were
struggling along with those ridiculous parallel ports for another five
years. Macs were way ahead of the curve as usual.

But still can't seem to use many USB cam's and WiFi devices for some
reason?

Lazy firmware programming. There are industry accepted standard
protocols for this kind of stuff. If a device needs a driver disc these
days, then someone has been lazy or is deliberately making proprietory
hardware.

And how would you directly connect your parallel-less Mac to a
parallel only and perfectly useable HPLJ4 etc?

Jet direct ethernet thingie, I think.

Or an ethernet to parallel print server box - about 20 quid these days.

*We* still have the choice ... built in ... (well, just about [1]) ;-)

As you rightly observe, hardly any 'Windows' machine comes with parallel
these days - and you'd really struggle to find a modern printer with a
parallel interface.

And Appletalk / LocalTalk as nice and universal wasn't it.

Nothing was universal in those days. Think about how many different
networking standards and protocols there were.

Token Ring, anyone?

I think
Dads' old AppleWriter is currently languishing in his garage because
even his eMac wouldn't talk to it? Could have talked to it via serial
I suppose (does the eMac have a serial interface) and that's always
nice and easy to wire up isn't it?

But an Applewriter is ancient. You could probably do something with a
USB to serial adaptor, though. But that would be equally true of a
modern Windows box that didn't come with parallel as standard.

Centronics interface, plug it in yer Mini Computer, SPARC, PC, Atari
and I dare say many others, what 'else' used LocalTalk?

If you were *really* lucky, you'd be able to find a driver for it, too.

Printing graphics was pretty much out of the question in a lot of cases,
'cos you could just about get the printer to output text with a generic
driver, but graphics was another matter.

Parallel interfaces were horrible, outdated things by the late 90s, why
anyone would be wanting them 10 years later, I'll never fully
understand.

As for Localtalk - see above ref: networking protocols and hardware.
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