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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by gumby on Sunday January 26, 2014 @10:40AM (#7125389)
> Even the 128k Mac had mostly standards-based connectors...DB-9 connector...

By the way it's a DE-9 connector (a DB-9 would be huge with lots of empty space). I know many people say "DB-9" when they mean the smaller connector, but then again many people say "narrowband"as the opposite of "broadband" when they really mean "baseband" -- just trying to make up words to sound sophisticated. Yes, even Apple marketing...

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Re:Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Sin... by Aloha on Sunday January 26, 2014 @08:25PM (#7128116)
Because most people use broadband in a place where wideband should be used.

In my little social circle - any discussion that becomes overly detail oriented (focusing on details over the core argument) has been dubbed a 'DE-9' discussion.

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