3/21/2023 0 Comments Usb overdrive for os 9I have a laptop that has some USB 3.x ports and an ExpressCard slot. Many have USB 2.0 ports, there are USB 3.x ExpressCards that work with them. There are millions of laptops out there with ExpressCard slots. The time to strike while the iron is hot for a USB-C ExpressCard is NOW. Their response was somewhere between apathy and “We don’t give a $h!t.” I asked why they hadn’t made 2.0 drivers for OS 9. Orange PC (the company that made single board PC cards for NuBus and PCI Macintoshes) in their later years sold USB 2.0 cards for Macs, with OS X and OS 9 support, but of course limited to 1.x for OS 9. “We just don’t want to, even though we could!” There was a good 3~4 year period where someone could’ve made some coin selling an OS9 USB 2.0 driver, like whomever did the USB Overdrive software to support many USB 1.x devices. Seems to be a lot like why nobody bothered to make 3rd party USB 2.0 drivers for Mac OS 9. Why are there no USB-C ExpressCard adapters? There’s no technical reason why not, especially if it also taps the USB 2.0 power lines. There are dual USB-C port cards for PCIe x1 slots in desktops. CardBus is just fast enough to handle a dual port USB 2.0 card. CardBus is a modified version of the 32 bit PCI slot. It’s a modified version of the 16 bit ISA slot. PCMCIA is the ancient laptop expansion slot. Posted in computer hacks Tagged usb, USB C, usb c power delivery, USB-PD Post navigation If you’d like to know a little bit more about USB-C, we’d like to direct you to our in-depth look at the subject. We’re sure there will come a moment at which someone will plug in a USB-C peripheral and expect it to work, it’s that good. The result is beautifully done, and a casual observer would be hard pressed to know that it hadn’t always been a USB-C port. Some Kapton tape and a bit of wire completes the work, and with a carefully reshaped hole in the outer case he’s good to go. He’s relying on the laptop’s ability to accept a range of voltages, and presumably trusting his steady hand with a rotary tool. He’s incorporated one of those little “ZYPDS” USB-C power delivery modules we’ve no-doubt all seen in the usual cheap electronic sources, and in a move of breathtaking audacity he’s cut away part of the Acer mainboard to do so. Of course, the port in question isn’t a fully functioning USB-C one, it’s a power supply jack, and it replaces the extremely unreliable barrel jack the machine was shipped with. But that’s what has done, in adding a USB-C port to his Acer. It’s a very brave person who takes a Dremel or similar to the case of their svelte new laptop in the quest for a new connector, it sounds as foolhardy as that hoax from a while back in which people tried to drill a 3.5mm jack into their new iPhones.
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