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   Feuerstein (feuerstein@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 00:32:13 JST Feuerstein

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs But we are at a convenient size of the connector today. I think we don’t need a smaller standard, now we can concentrate on optimizing the data rate.

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     Lily Star (starlily@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 00:34:24 JST Lily Star

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Good thing they are labelled, I would have assumed they were MIDI ports.

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     ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 00:55:03 JST ROTOPE~1 :yell:

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs the key thing to understand is that the tooling to manufacture a brand new kind of connector is really expensive. It is a lot easier to point at an existing connector and say "hey can I buy a hundred thousand of those too?" than reinvent the wheel.

     The Atari 2600 only supports 2KB cartridges because nobody was selling a slightly wider cartridge slot (for more address lines) at the time. Adding two more little pins was a harder problem than putting mapper chips in millions of carts

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs It was really cool when connectors were changed by doing things like "put the slot in backwards" or "shove a plug in one of the 80 pin holes."

     I've never tried to stick a PCI card in a VLB slot. Or found that the difference in insertion force when you're bending one little pin is close to fuck-all.