[sdiy] Euro Synth Spec

[Mike HEQX]

Yeah, as you mentioned, that was the real benefit of the colored jacks, 
and I thought it was a good idea at the time they started doing it.

I was selling about 4000 pcs a month during that period and it made it 
easy to get things right. Even corporate IT customers appreciated it.

I suppose the modular world will not adopt a standard like that. As John 
mentioned it would be a cost factor as well.

On 10/17/2017 7:10 PM, Ove Ridé wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> /Ove
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