Top 10 obsolete ports

Darius Chang | Mar 26, 2008

I can still remember my first laptop. It was a Toshiba Pentium II model bought back in 1999. At that time, PS/2, serial and parallel ports were a must-have. There was a lonely USB port in the rear hidden by a sliding cover. For the life of me, I had no idea what it was supposed to be for, and I assumed it was an additional heat vent to be used when the machine was going full blast.

Fast forward to today when the USB port is king and any machine which dares to include only one (with the exception of UMPCs) will be ridiculed no end (MacBook Air, are you listening?). With eSATA just over the horizon and wireless USB on its way to unseat its wired brother, CNET UK took a step back in time to remember the ones which had served us well so many years ago.

Via Crave UK

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