Subj : Re: limited to USB 1?
To   : TOM WALKER
From : BEN RITCHEY
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 10:56 pm

* An ongoing debate between Tom Walker and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

| TW> designed for -> risers usually come with extra/special slot covers
| TW> with connections for -> external devices. Cables run from there to
| TW> existing card connectors or better -> yet to existing pin headers on
| TW>  ??? I think you are "FULL OF IT".
| TW> I have worked with a number of Computers designeed for "Riser Cards"
| TW> and NONE of the Riser Cards would be usable in a Standard Computer

Well, I just finished what I hope will be my last pass in the yard until
spring, mowing and mulching the leaves, and after a nice supper, I am certainly
"full" of something <chuckle> but you are probably right. The system I have
here (that I described) was probably popular long before you were even born and
is not technology one would expect to see in a modern PC, *BUT* it could be
done, and quite easily.  [:^)

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