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Article #82637Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: Anssi Saari
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:22
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:22
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Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > Note that early Macintoshes didn't support any sort of plug and play > functionality. Plug and play refers to the ability to plug in some > sort of device into a computer and just have it work. Early Macs didn't > support pluging in much of anything. My first memory of plug and play is someone trying to detach an extra battery from a laptop and put in a CD drive, in a modular bay or whatever it was called back then. Laptop was running Windows 1995 and the guy gushed about how cool plug and play is. The machine crashed of course... I seem to also remember the iMacs did popularize USB in the late 1990s, with the first iMac which came out in 1998. So that would be the start of plug and play on the Macs.
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