From: Paul Braun (splendor_at_ctgonline.org)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 10:14:48 PST
I believe that the original game plan called for a number of different
dongles for different connectivity, all using the one port. However,
things in Newtonland started to go South, and the serial dongle
was all that was produced.
On 3 Feb 2003, at 9:28, Brian Braunschweiger wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why Apple designed a dongle
> rather than using a traditional circular serial port? Does the dongle
> port save space, make it more compatible with Windows or what?
> Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>
> Brian
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> Brian Braunschweiger
>
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