[OT] USB KVM switches

[Jules Richardson]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:41 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> >> [USB] not supposed to be easy to develop for, but easy to use.
> >> * It never requires adapters.
> >> * Connectors are utterly standardized!
> >
> > Hm?  I have four USB devices.  Each one has a different connector.
> 
> This sounds like make-argument, no offense! OK there are four (4)
> USB connectors -- so what? Big (two ended) small (two ended).
> Printers have big, cameras have small.

Actually I have a couple of digital cameras - an Fuji A101 (about 4
years old) and a Canon G5 (about a year old). Both are USB but use
different connectors at the camera end. The Canon has a connector that
looks like a minature version of a PC's USB socket, whilst the Fuji has
a similar sized minature connector, but with the contacts arranged in a
square pattern rather than a line.

Not sure which is an accepted standard and which isn't (or maybe neither
are), but I've seen both types on other cameras.