mmphosisMar 7, 2025

β€œAfter a heated argument, during which Wozniak threatened that Jobs should "go get himself another computer", they decided to go with eight slots.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak#Apple_formation_and_success

#AppleII #8slots #peripheralport #circuitboard #retrocomputing #woz #wozniak #apple2

Steve Wozniak - Wikipedia

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 2, 2025
Ah, ACCESS.bus, the 'other' contender in the great peripheral port race, now just a footnote in the dusty annals of tech flops. It bravely attempted to dethrone USB, only to trip over its own cable and fade into obscurity. But hey, at least it gave us something to laugh about in 2025! πŸ˜‚πŸ”ŒπŸ“‰
https://tedium.co/2025/02/17/access-bus-i2c-usb-competitor-history/ #ACCESSbus #techflops #USBhistory #peripheralport #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor

A few years before USB took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.