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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The PS2 (and AT) connectors keyboards and mice were largely using before USB were round…

Arguably still better though because you could just rotate the plug until it went in instead of flipping it back and forth 5 times to get it to go in. And they also had more reliable indication for orientation.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you could just rotate the plug until it went in

That was a good way to twist and bend up all the pins. Don't you remember how fragile they were?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I meant to add a warning saying I may have bent a few pins that way 😅

Twist gently…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They still are widely used. There are certain things that you can't do on some motherboards without a PS2 device.