Re: USB input devices?

[cranem@athenet.net (Michael Crane)]

On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 07:52:31 -0500, nospamhattonr@aug.com (Rick)
wrote:

>Michael Crane <cranem@athenet.net> wrote:
>> Folks, I wouldn't believe a word this fellow types - he's lied
>> repeatedly here before.  For instance, he promised that he would leave
>> the Apple II community on Dec. 25, 1998.  Obviously he has reneged on
>> this promise.
>
>I wonder if his enginner friend is basing the assumptions on the fact
>that there are already ADB/USB converters being produced for the Mac.

Hmmm, ADB/USB converters.  How useful can this be, given that USB has
a data rate of 12Mbps, and ADB has to be considerably less than that
(though I will admit ignorance of the actual data rate of an ADB
port.)  Perhaps useful enough for mice, keyboards, joysticks and the
like, but for scanners, floppy drives, tape drives, etc?  Unlikely, or
these devices would have been produced for ADB before the advent of
USB.

Of course, I suppose it's possible that these converters are actually
intended to make ADB devices work on a USB port and not the other way
around, but that is only supposition and I have no data to verify it.
At least that would make some sort of sense, but it doesn't much help
out for the Apple II since it still lacks (and is likely to continue
lacking) USB ports.

>As for truth and veracity.. why dont you leave the character
>assasinations to another newsgroup?

Character assassinations?  I suppose, but I still believe that the
truth should be made known and that promises should be kept, no matter
where one is.

Let it be made known that I do *not* hate Mr. Turley.  I do not know
Mr. Turly beyond his visible works.  As such, I can only make my
decisions based on the data I have.  That data says that Mr. Turley
has lied to the folks on this newsgroup; and furthermore, it also
suggests (though not necessarily conclusively) that he is a pirate and
a sector editor who modifies others works and claims them as his own.
I do not know the veracity of these allegations and as such do not
claim them to be fact.