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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible(www.pcgamer.com)

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I built a Pentium 2 in 1998 and needed a separate pci card to add usb 1.1 (which was what most early Usb was) USB2 came out in 2000. By then I was ready to upgrade the motherboard and the next one had USB built in, but I can’t remember if it was usb 2 or not, since that might have been late 99

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I can’t remember either, it’s been a while. :)

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