Posted by saint on October 15, 1999 at 13:36:30:
In Reply to: 2000 pc specs eliminating all but usb+firewire ports? posted by exph on October 15, 1999 at 00:12:24:
Methinks there will be a third-party market for
a long time to come selling parallel/serial/etc
cards as add-ons to dumbed-down computers. Also,
as most people have a significant investment in
peripherals that require those ports, I doubt any
manufacturer worth a darn will eliminate them.
Probably will be available as options, or they'll
meet the PC-2000 specs "plus" backwards compatible
ports...
Should be interesting to see how it pans out...
--- saint
: Hi everyone,
: I read this on www.emuviews.com as a reply to a hotrod
: story.
: >Will there be a way to adapt older Hotrod joysticks
: > to USB in the
: >future as the 2000 PC specs call for the elimination
: > of all external
: >ports except USB and firewire
: I don't care about the hotrod part, it is the elimination
: of all but the firewire and usb ports that concerns me.
: It looks like we will all need usb keyboard hacks
: or happ's usb interface if we ever get new machines for
: our projects. Why are they trying to turn our pc's into
: (as Q*bert would say) #@!%ing iMacs? It seems everyone
: is quite happy with their keyboard encoders and powerramps.
: Anyone have anything to say on this subject?
: :::exph:::