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Originally Posted by Phssthpok
And let's not forget Centronics/DB-25 (and others) for parallel ports...
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I'd not forgotten it, SCSI, firewire or GPIB. I was only listing serial interfaces.
USB 1.0 was too slow to replace, parallel, SCSI, Firewire or GPIB. USB 1.1 was still too slow. USB 2.0 was needed (April 2000, but widespread support very much later, a cheap SCSI scanner in 2002 was still faster than the same model in a USB version for most people).
Windows 95 didn't originally have USB. The USB 1.0 standard was released in 1996. MS cancelled the last SP for NT4.0 which added USB (I tried the beta) to boost Windows 2000 sales (the first NT with USB). I think the early iPods had Firewire rather than USB and either kind was a pain to use with Win95.