[sdiy] Euro Synth Spec

[Ove Ridé]

On 18 October 2017 at 00:03, Mike HEQX <mike at heqx.com> wrote:
> Relating this to computers it was somewhat successful to have various
> colors assigned to all of the ports in the rear. To me almost strange,
> because who could confuse a parallel port with a serial port, etc.

That's one of the few ports that are NOT so easy to confuse. Although
arguably it's useful for identification. You can glance quickly to see
if there's a color matching the port you need. But the real benefit of
standardizing the coloring scheme of the PC I/O ports are for the
following:
* Mini-DIN connectors. Used for both keyboards and mice, and
traditionally it was important which device plugged into which port,
or you would have to reboot in order to make your mouse and keyboard
work.
* 3.5 mm jacks. A well equipped PC can have 6 or more jacks on the rear.
* USB ports. They come in different speeds and sometimes a computer
only has one or two of the faster type. Very useful if you want to
allocate the faster ports to external disk drives for example.

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/Ove

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