> Tony Smith wrote:
> > But the socket is a USB-A!  WTF, as is often heard.  In that (bad) 
> > picture you can see a USB-A to USB-A cable.  Confuses the 
> crap out of 
> > everyone I show it to.  So now I have this weird cable.  As if the 
> > mini-B's weren't annoying enough.  I wonder if Radio Shack 
> stock USB A-A...
> 
> Is it my imagination, or was this more usual in the early 
> days of USB? 
> I seem to remember seeing nothing but A-A cables for a while. 
>  I was giving an old PICkit 1 away a while ago, and the guy I 
> gave it to (who was fairly out of the loop) had never seen an 
> A-B cable before and thought it was not "real" USB.  I 
> explained to him that it was in fact the standard and he 
> didn't seem to believe me.


That I could believe.  The original idea was that devices always had the
cable attached (stops you losing it, I guess), but the manufacturers got
upset.  Fair enough,  a digital camera with a metre of cable hanging off it
is pretty silly.

So the B type was invented, and the camera makers ignored that too and
invented their own anyway.

...but that was 10 years ago.  This is a new (1-2 years?) product.  What one
earth were they thinking?  They get a bunch of 10 year old cables for free?

Tony

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