344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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Then You Could Plug a Termitator Into Your Mk3
There are only seven different ports on the back of ta mack. You could daisy chain another device and plug that into, you know, like, so if you had like two hard drives, you could plug hard drive a into your mack and plug hard drive b into hard drive a. It was just as fast as they were plugged in directly. But then at the end of the chain, you had to have a terminator, unless you had a fancy devices that could self terminate. So all our modern standards, as much as we may feel like there are too many, definitely have long roots, and a lot of its still compatible.
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