Re: [tlug] Linux / MacOS X and dv cameras

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 7/21/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Heh.  Man, you shoulda seen the shit that NEC used to do (eg, the
> little metal bridge in their PS2/AUX sockets so you couldn't plug in a
> non-NEC-brand mouse without a special connector) until Toshiba and
> Sony (not to mention Gateway and Dell) clobbered their butts in the
> luggable (now notebook) market precisely by being quite Blue in their
> interfaces.  Now the LaVie is a bog-(sub)standard piece of equipment.

Yeah - and there was even a special Brand-W version for NEC that
produced files incompatible with everyone else!  For computers, NEC is
at the very top of my "Do Not Buy!!!" list!  Sony is second.

Lyle