Do you remember having to tune your radio next to your ZX80 computer, with 1k or ram, just to hear some squeaks and pops that you called computer music. Do your remember playing music on your Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy drive. How about squinting to see your green or orange computer screen.
Well all good things must come to an end. Recently many common components on a PC have been removed. Most people purchasing a notebook will find that there is no longer a 1.44 floppy drive, parallel port and serial port. This trend has now moved to the desktop. Many motherboards no longer have floppy controllers, parallel ports and serial ports. Instead you are given 10 or more USB serial ports. In fact some manufactures have removed the IDE hard drive, IDE optical channel. Yes the old ribbon cable is going to be history. It does make sense to simplify components. Now your peripherals are USB and your internal components are mostly SATA. (more…)