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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="2cvbloke" data-source="post: 1017540" data-attributes="member: 199791"><p>I remember the first time I saw a USB port, it was a lone port on the back of a late 90s Tiny computer that ran Win98 I got asked to set up, didn't know what it was 'til I unpacked the scanner and found this strange, small plug on the end of a surprisingly thin cable (I had a Parallel Port Agfa Snapscan 1212p scanner myself, amazing I can remember that, but not what I ate last night!!), so back then, a computer having just one USB port would have been normal, so they over-engineered the backwards-compatibility software for it I guess...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2cvbloke, post: 1017540, member: 199791"] I remember the first time I saw a USB port, it was a lone port on the back of a late 90s Tiny computer that ran Win98 I got asked to set up, didn't know what it was 'til I unpacked the scanner and found this strange, small plug on the end of a surprisingly thin cable (I had a Parallel Port Agfa Snapscan 1212p scanner myself, amazing I can remember that, but not what I ate last night!!), so back then, a computer having just one USB port would have been normal, so they over-engineered the backwards-compatibility software for it I guess... [/QUOTE]
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