Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Dumbest Connectors Ever”.
Modern desktop pcs usually have backsides full of enough holes to give a tryptophobe an aneurysm, but those ports have all gone through a lot of different iterations over the years sure we might rely on many staples like hdmi and usb now, but many more didn’t make it. What about the ports that were just the absolute worst? What happened to those guys, you might think it’s a bit cringe to start dunking on things like old display, connectors or proprietary apple ports, but in some cases they kind of deserve it. For example, the high density interconnect 45 or hdi 45 was released on march 14th, 1994, with the powermax 6100 7100 and 8100 computers to use with the audiovision 14 display and then never used again, meaning this connector enjoyed a fulfilling life as long as those power mac Models were being produced so for a whole two years – oh apple, but during that time the hdi45 had the distinction of carrying the signal for your speakers microphone and video in stunning 480i on a single cable. If, for some reason, you didn’t want to use this glorious connector, the audio vision 14 also had an s-video import port on the side which wasn’t supported by apple and went unused. Why did they include it? In the first place, the answer is lost to the sands of time.
You know what hasn’t been lost, though molex. Why is the molex power connector stuck around for so long? The answer is that it is cheap and now that’s pretty much it. It certainly didn’t survive because it was easy to use as anyone who’s ever tried to pull apart. A male and female molex connector can attest, because the bond of true love is unbreakable, one of those little like squeezy things that would push them apart.
Oh, that was a high-end feature. Fun fact. The standard 4-pin connectors that we call molex today are actually based on a design from amp, which now goes by te. Connectivity called the matin lock, which was itself based on a pin and socket design originally produced by the molex connector company.
But the mate and lock design did little to address many of the original’s problems back when they used to be standard power connectors for hard drives and disk drives. The pins of molex connectors would often be pushed out of the back if they weren’t perfectly aligned with the pin holes. The connector also had deceptive little handles on them.
No human hands could really grip down too nicely until power supply manufacturers made things a little bit easier with these little pinchy tab things. I talked about earlier on top of all that the connectors had a penchant for just breaking if manufactured in a subpar manner, which many many were remember. These are cheap. Well, molex became a vernacular term used to refer to any number of similar four pin connectors molex. The company is alive and well and the connectors that we all think of when we say molex still infest, most desktop pcs to this day.
Thank you, molex. Thankfully, the world is starting to heal from the infestation of another horrible port micro, usb designed to take up less space than its predecessor mini usb micro. Usb was supposed to have an estimated lifespan of 10 000 insertions. That was a funny joke.
In reality, the tiny port haha we’re going for size now, huh too, oh, was so weak that it would often end up mangled well before it could hit the big ten zero zero zero. If the near microscopic clips that kept it nestled into its destination device got improperly bent or shaved down over time, as you know, friction does you’d have yourself a cable that might just fall out if you looked at it the wrong way, if the port on your Device ended up mutilated, which inevitably, it would because again friction you’d, be looking at either replacing it yourself with a very difficult soldering job or replacing the device entirely, as most people, unfortunately, would do. Thankfully, micro usb has been largely replaced by the much more user-friendly, usb type-c connector, which does have its own set of problems, but nobody’s perfect, and that ain’t, even the half of it, we’ll talk about even more silly pc ports. After this message for our sponsor solidworks, the 3d experience solidworks for makers offer is available right now for a great low price of 99 per year, but viewers of our channel can enjoy an additional 20 percent off.
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It was not much smaller than a standard, usb or hdmi port, both of which it actually resembled depending on where it was used. So where was it used only on two laptops released in early 2008, the original macbook air, where the micro dvi port could easily be mistaken as a usb type, a port and on the asus u2e subcompact notebook, which featured the port disguised as an hdmi port? What is going on here, apparently, a port in two form. Factors was confusing for everyone else as well, because by the time summer arrived in 2008, the sun had already set on this abomination of a standard and micro deviant’s house had been foreclosed for good. Are there any other pc ports, cables or connectors? You simply cannot stand.
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