Re:I’ve made a Cursed USB-C 2.0 device
by reaperducer on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:29PM
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This is already a solved problem[1] through color coding
You would think so, but no. Colors don't help.
Not just because a good chunk of the population has color vision issues. But people for some reason the average person can't latch onto that sort of thinking.
We went through this back in the 90's. Your PS/2 mouse plug was one color, and the PS/2 keyboard plug was another color. But people still tried to stick them in the wrong places.
Same with the sound card. Microphone, speakers, line in, line out, all had their own colors that matched the wires that came in the box. Regular people screwed that up all the time.
Going further back to the 70's and 80's, if you looked at the back of anyone's rack system, there was a 50% chance they had the red/white pairs of RCA plug backwards. Then when video started getting carried over the same plug, but colored yellow, things got worse.
You would think so, but no. Colors don't help.
Not just because a good chunk of the population has color vision issues. But people for some reason the average person can't latch onto that sort of thinking.
We went through this back in the 90's. Your PS/2 mouse plug was one color, and the PS/2 keyboard plug was another color. But people still tried to stick them in the wrong places.
Same with the sound card. Microphone, speakers, line in, line out, all had their own colors that matched the wires that came in the box. Regular people screwed that up all the time.
Going further back to the 70's and 80's, if you looked at the back of anyone's rack system, there was a 50% chance they had the red/white pairs of RCA plug backwards. Then when video started getting carried over the same plug, but colored yellow, things got worse.